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The Belle Skinner collection of old musical instruments, Holyoke, Massachusetts, 1933
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1FOREWORD
3The old musical instruments described in the pages of this book were gathered together by my sister to satisfy her love of music and of art, for she delighted to have beautiful things near her. During her youth she studied the violin and piano and all her life she maintained her great interest in music and in everything related to it.
5In her early travels she came across the Ruckers two-manual harpsichord described here, and having acquired this, the first of her collection, her desire for more treasures naturally developed. Throughout the rest of her life she became an eager collector of rare instruments. Never did she intend to form a museum, but she was happy in the thought of bringing to her home treasures which she could share with her family and her friends and which she could leave to posterity. She had desired to publish a catalogue and the photographs reproduced in these pages were taken under her personal direction.
7These notes have been compiled by Fanny Reed Hammond and by the curator, Nils J. Ericsson, an expert maker of violins, at one time associated with Arnold Dolmetsch of England in the restoring of old musical instruments, and with Etienne Gaveau, in Paris, and Chickering and Sons, in Boston, in the making of clavichords and harpsichords.
9I wish to express my sincere appreciation of the courtesy shown in the several libraries where much of the material for these notes was obtained, especially to the librarians and staff of the Library and Music Department of Mount Holyoke College; of the Forbes Library, Northampton; the Jones Memorial Library and the College Library of Amherst; the New York Public Library, and particularly
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