The Hans Adler Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments
This interesting and rare collection is housed mainly in the School of Music at the
University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The collection includes specimens representative of stages in the development
of keyboard instruments.
Alexander Bertolotti Harpsichord (c.1600)
This Ventian harpsichord is on trestles. The painted casing, the soundboard and rose are antique. The keyboard is completely renovated or altogether new.
Hans Adler Early Keyboard Instruments Collection
Harpsichord Wanda Landowska (16th century)
There is a painting attributed to Verrocchio inside the lid and the case is beautifully carved. This instrument once belonged to Wanda Landowska, who in her
autobiography named this instrument her favourite.
Hans Adler Early Keyboard Instruments Collection
Two-manual Italian Harpsichord (c. 18th century)
This instrument has a beautiful Flemish painting on the inside of the lid
and a delicately ornamented frame.
Hans Adler Early Keyboard Instruments Collection
Clavicytherium (1589)
Upright harpsichord, doors are original, keyboard partly Italian
Edwin M. Ripin, The instrument catalogs of Leopoldl Fraciolini, Hackensack, NJ, 1974: Catalog 6, Series A, Number 1, photo p. 99
Hans Adler Early Keyboard Instruments Collection
Square Piano (1725)
Hans Adler Early Keyboard Instruments Collection
Broadwood Piano (1788)
This is a five-octave instrument on trestles and one of Broadwood's earliest intruments.
Hans Adler Early Keyboard Instruments Collection
