Useful Links
Michael Cole's appraisal of the technical aspects of William Southwell's work and his assessment of the importance of Southwell's inventions are of particular interest and recommended here as a valuable resource.
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Links to the sites presented in alphabetical order below are offered here as a source of useful information on early musical instruments and other related fields more generally.
American Musical Instrument Society
The Bate Collection, University of Oxford – keyboard instruments section
Boston Museum of Fine Arts Musical Instruments Collection
The Cobbe Collection, Hatchlands, Surrey
Colonial Williamsburg Musical Instruments Collection
Deutches Museum Munich Musical Instrument Collection
Finchcocks Musical Museum
Friends of Square Pianos Webmaster: David Hackett.
The Galpin Society
The Horniman Museum Musical Instruments Collection
International Directory of Musical Instrument Collections
Kunst Historische Museum Vienna, Musical Instrument Collection
Lucy Coad, square piano conservation and repair
The McManus Art Gallery and Museum Dundee
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Musical Instrument Collection
Musical Instrument Museum, Brussels
National Museum of Ireland, Musical Instruments
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
The National Music Museum, University of South Dakota
Pianofortes Museum Geelvinck Hinlopen Huis Amsterdam
Royal Academy of Music, London
Royal College of Music Museum, London
Royal Musical Association, London
Square Piano Tech A resource for the restoration of 18th and early 19th Century Square Pianos. The site includes a short article by webmaster Thomas Strange setting out his personal observations on William Southwell's lasting impact on the piano; see Articles ‘Improvements 1.2’.
Stearns Collection, University of Michigan
University of Edinburgh Musical Instruments Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum Musical Instruments Collection
Yale Collection of Musical Instruments
