Hello All,

I was doing some digging around and located a wonderful book which was translated from the Russian by Yuri S. Shirokov.

I think its glorious reading which traces the origins of the piano to its present form.

It has beautiful illustrations of the forerunner instruments as well. It includes an irridescent photograph of the 100 000th 'Presidential' Steinway grand piano.

Cheerio mates

I take it that you read the book?

I haven't seen that one but I was given one called "Piano: Evolution, Design and Performance" by David Crombie, published by IMP, and full of beautiful colour photos - I haven't read all the text yet but I love looking at the pretty pictures!!!