HISTORICAL KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA

The University of South Carolina possesses an outstanding collection of period keyboard instruments. Students have access to copies of a portative organ, and an English Virginal, as well as Italian, German, and French style Harpsichords. The collection also includes copies of a Mozart-era piano, and a Schubert-era piano. Private faculty collections include harpsichords, clavichords, and an 1862 Erard grand piano

Left: 18th Century French Harpsichord by Zeidler & Quagliata, 1970
Right: 17th Century Italian Harpsichord by Willard Martin, 1995

Left: 18th Century Saxon Double Harpsichord by Willard Martin, 1995
Right: 16th Century English Virginal by John Phillips, 1995

Left: Forte-Piano after 1780 Anton Walter
Right: Forte-Piano after 1817 Nannette Streicher

French Erard Piano, 1862

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HISTORICAL KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA