Early Keyboard Instruments

Discusses a variety of issues involved in the performance of keyboard music from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Forms a useful introduction to historical performance issues for student performers or amateurs, whether playing on period instruments or on the modern piano.

'… it is, in fact, an excellent introduction … I wish there had been a book like it when I was a school.' Clifford Bartlett, Early Music Review

'A significant body of information, lucid and succinct.' Early Music

'… the breadth and clarity of presentation and indexing will no doubt ensure that players of any keyboard instrument will want to have [this book] to hand for quick consultation and revision for many years to come.' The British Clavichord Society Newsletter