Mrs Findlay's Broadwood Square Piano
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This is the tale of an 1804 Broadwood square piano and two great Scottish families: the Findlays of Glasgow, tobacco merchants and East Indiamen, and the Dennys, the famous shipbuilders of Dumbarton. Originally bought by Mrs Dorothy Findlay in 1804, the piano appeared in an Irish auction in 1977 where it was bought by the author's mother, a member of the Denny family. The history of the piano reveals unexpected connections between the two families. The piano was also the starting point in the romantic but tragic saga of Mrs Findlay's daughter 'The Flighty Dorothea' who ran off with her music teacher John Donaldson. Includes a CD on which Inja Davidovic plays excerpts from Bach's English Suites Nos. 2 & 3 and John Field's Nocturne No. 5 on the 1804 square piano, and also John Donaldson's Sonata for the pianoforte on a modern Steinway Grand. Signed by the author on the title page.
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