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The piano was evidently destroyed during the Second World War. Piano scholar Edwin Good (1986; see References below) has examined a very similar Streicher piano made in 1870, with the goal of finding out more about Brahms's instrument. This 1870 Streicher has leather (not felt) hammers, a rather light metal frame (with just two tension bars), a ...
Edwin Hughes (August 15, 1884 — July 17, 1965) [1] was an American pianist, music educator, music editor, and composer. In 1940 he co-founded the National Music Council . Life and career
Edwin Fischer (6 October 1886 – 24 January 1960) was a Swiss classical pianist and conductor. He is regarded as one of the great interpreters of J.S. Bach and Mozart in the twentieth century. Biography
Good, Edwin. Giraffes, Black Dragons, and Other Pianos: A Technological History from Cristofori to the Modern Concert Grand, Second Edition. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8047-4549-8; Williams, John-Paul. The Piano: An Inspirational Guide to the Piano and Its Place in History. New York: Billboard Books, 2002. ISBN 0-8230 ...
The reintroduction of the fortepiano has permitted performance of 18th- and early 19th-century music on the instruments for which it was written, yielding new insights into this music (for detailed discussion, see Piano history and musical performance). More and more music schools offer courses of study in the fortepiano.
For the piano portion, the following two reference works were relied on: Good, Edwin M. (1982). Giraffes, Black Dragons, and other Pianos: A Technological History from Cristofori to the Modern Concert Grand. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. Pollens, Stewart (1995). The Early Pianoforte. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
The first pneumatic piano player that was practical was the Pianola, invented in 1896 by Edwin S. Votey of Detroit, MI, who received a patent on May 22, 1900. The patent was for an attachment of practical and economical construction that could be applied to and removed from any piano.
A restored pneumatic player piano Steinway reproducing piano from 1920. Harold Bauer playing Saint-Saëns' Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22, excerpt of 3rd movement. Duo-Art recording 5973-4. A player piano is a self-playing piano with a pneumatic or electromechanical mechanism that operates the piano action using perforated paper or ...