Finchcocks Musical Museum: A list of the instruments

The Finchcocks Collection of Historical Keyboard Instruments
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Click on the instruments in red for a description and sound sample

Adlam Burnett	Goudhurst, 1976	virginal (after a Ruckers ‘muselar’, 1623)
Adlam Burnett	Goudhurst/Welbeck, 1982-3	double manual harpsichord after A Ruckers 1638
Adlam Burnett	Goudhurst, 1974	grand piano (fortepiano) after Mathaeus Heilmann, Mainz, c.1785
Alexandre Père et Fils	Paris, 1859	harmonium
Andersson, Gustaf and Wilhelm	Nässja and Näshult (Sweden), circa 1890	pianoharpa
Anonymous	presumably English, circa 1680	chamber organ
Anonymous	England, circa 1790	chamber organ
Anonymous	France, circa 1860	miniature free-reed organ
Anonymous	probably Germany, circa 1815	portable square piano
Anonymous	German, circa 1825 (possibly Schleip, Berlin)	lyre piano (Lyraflugel)
Anonymous	England, second half of the nineteenth century	domestic barrel piano
Anonymous	Sainte-Croix (Switzerland), circa 1895	cylinder musical box with drum and bells
Antunes, Joachim	Lisbon, 1785	single-manual harpsichord
Autophone Company (The)	Ithaca, New York, circa 1885	portable free-reed barrel organ (cob organ)
Avery, John	London, 1792	chamber organ
Ayton, William	London, circa 1800	barrel organ
Bayes and Company	London, 1793	square piano
Beale, Frederick	London, 1840s	upright piano ("Euphonicon")
Beyer, Adam	London, 1777	square piano
Blasser, Thomas	London, 1744	double-manual harpsichord
John Brinsmead and Sons	London, circa 1855	upright piano
John Broadwood and Son	London, 1792?	grand piano
John Broadwood and Son	London, 1795	square piano
John Broadwood and Son	London, 1798	square piano
John Broadwood and Son	London, 1801	grand piano
John Broadwood and Sons	London, circa 1815	square piano
John Broadwood and Sons	London, circa 1820	grand piano
John Broadwood and Sons	London, circa 1820	square piano
John Broadwood and Sons	London, 1823	grand piano
John Broadwood and Sons	London, circa 1830	cabinet upright piano
John Broadwood and Sons	London, 1846	grand piano
John Broadwood and Sons	London, 1858	square piano
John Broadwood and Sons	London,1859	grand piano
John Broadwood and Sons	London, circa 1870	upright piano
Busson	Paris, circa 1850	piano accordion
Byfield, John	London, 1766	chamber organ
C.A.	circa 1700	bentside spinet
Chappell and Company	London, circa 1815	keyboard crystallophone (usually known as 'pianino')
Chappell and Company	London, circa 1870	digitorium
Muzio Clementi and Company	London circa 1800	grand piano
Muzio Clementi and Company	London, circa 1804	upright grand piano
Muzio Clementi and Company	London, circa 1815	square piano
Clementi and Company	London, circa 1815	square piano
Clementi and Company	London, circa 1815	square piano
Muzio Clementi and Company	London circa 1815	grand piano
Muzio Clementi and Company	London, circa 1821	grand piano
Muzio Clementi and Company	London, 1822	grand piano
Muzio Clementi and Company	London, circa 1825	upright piano
Clementi and Company	London, circa 1825	upright piano
Collard and Collard	London, circa 1835	square piano
Collard and Collard	London, circa 1835	grand piano (bichord)
Collard and Collard	London, circa 1835	grand piano (bichord)
Edwards, William	London, circa 1825	upright piano (cabinet)
W.J.Ennever and Son	London, circa 1850	upright piano (bichord)
Erard, Sebastian	Paris, 1792	square piano (piano carré)
Erard Frères	Paris, 1801	grand piano
Erard	London, 1866	grand piano
Erard	London, circa 1860	upright piano
Flight	London, circa 1790	barrel organ
Fr. Ant. L.	Spain, 1716	single manual harpsichord
Fritz, Johann	Vienna, circa 1815	grand piano (fortepiano)
Ganer, Christopher	London, circa 1780	square piano
Ganer, Christopher	London, 1784	square piano
Robert Goble and Son	Oxford, 1973	double manual harpsichord
Gregori	Sant’ Elpidio, 1797?	single manual harpsichord
Graf, Conrad	Vienna, circa 1820	grand piano (fortepiano)
Graf, Conrad	Vienna, 1826	grand piano (fortepiano)
Guarracino, Onofrio	Naples, 1668	virginal
Hancock, Crang	London, 1779	transverse grand piano (in the shape of a bentside spinet)
Henschker, Carl	Vienna, circa 1840	grand piano (fortepiano)
Jakesch, Mathias	Vienna, 1832	grand piano
Jones, Round and Company	London, circa 1810	upright grand piano
Kearsing, William	London, circa 1830	square piano
Kirckman, Jacob	London 1756	double manual harpsichord
Knowles and Allen	Aberdeen, circa 1805	square piano
Lengerer, Sebastian	Kufstein, 1793	grand piano (fortepiano)
Lochmann, Paul	Leipzig, circa 1895	symphonion (disc musical box)
Longman and Broderip	London, circa 1790	barrel organ
Longman and Broderip	London, circa 1795	square piano
Longman, Lukey and Company	London circa 1780	square piano
Lindholm och Söderström	Stockholm, 1806	unfretted clavichord
Thomas Machell and Sons	Glasgow, circa 1920	dulcitone
Mahoon, Joseph	London, 1742	bentside spinet
Mathuschek, Frederick	New Haven, U.S.A., 1873	square piano
Mercier, Sébastien	Paris, 1831	upright piano
Pape, Henri	Paris, 1841	upright piano (piano-console)
Pape, Henri	Paris, 1843	upright piano (piano-console)
Ignace Pleyel et Compagnie	Paris, circa 1840	upright piano
Ignace Pleyel et Compagnie	Paris, 1842	grand piano
Schmahl, Georg Friedrich	Ulm, 1807	fretted clavichord
Rosenberger, Michael	Vienna, circa 1800	grand piano (fortepiano)
Sauer, Leopold	Prague, circa 1805	pyramid piano (pyramidenflugel)
Southwell, William	Dublin, circa 1800	upright square piano
Stodart, Robert	London, 1787	grand piano
Stodart, William and Matthew	London, 1802	grand piano
Stodart, William and Matthew	London, 1807	square piano
Streicher, Johann Baptist	Vienna, 1867	grand piano
Tait, J	London, circa 1815	angelica (musical glasses)
Anton Walter und Sohn	Vienna, circa 1800	portable square piano (Reiseklavier)
Wilson	Whitby, 1789	square piano
Woffington, Robert	Dublin, circa 1800	upright piano
Johannes Zumpe and Gabriel Buntebart	London, 1769	square piano