Image: Professor Bruce Simonds playing the 1784 Christian Gotthelf Hoffman clavichord (Clav. No. 10) in Wistariahurst, Holyoke, Massachusetts, 1955

Description: Professor Bruce Simonds, a former dean of the Yale School of Music plays a 1784 Christian Gotthelf Hoffman clavichord of the Belle Skinner collection, catalogued as Clavichord #10 before its donation to Yale in 1959, and for which a duplicate exists in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This marked the first time the Skinner collection was recorded on a record for the public.
Title: Professor Bruce Simonds playing the 1784 Christian Gotthelf Hoffman clavichord (Clav. No. 10) in Wistariahurst, Holyoke, Massachusetts, 1955
Credit: Spotlight on Keyboard, by R. D. Darrell, accompanying booklet by VOX, 1955
Author: UnknownUnknown , possibly R. D. Darrell
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