Horn Lore Author(s): Philip Bate Source: The Galpin Society Journal, Vol. 31 (May, 1978), pp.

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DOHNAL'S PIANOS Would anyone knowing the whereabouts of any grand pianos by the I8th-century Viennese maker, Joseph Dohnal (1759-1829) please contact me. The only example I know of is in ratherpoor condition at present, and a comparison with more complete examples, especially c.I790, would be of great help when restorationto playing condition is undertaken.
PETER C. BARNES

II Crescent Row, Birch Vale

Stockport HORN LORE I think that perhaps readersof GSJ, especially horn enthusiasts,may be interestedin two recent minor 'finds'. Some months ago the wellknown trumpet teacher Phil Parker acquired an autograph letter in the hand of Giovanni Puzzi, the famous horn virtuoso of the early 19th century. This he has most kindly allowed me to examine and copy. The letter, on a half-sheetof notepaper (see Fig. below), and written in execrable French, is addressedto 'Sir g. Smarte' (sic). Literally translated it reads 'I will call in on you to ask you to tell me if the 12 June has been booked by anyone in as much as (?since)I would like to fix it for my concert. Accept I beg you my respectful sentiments. Your very devoted servant, G. Puzzi'. Now according to the Philharmonic Society's programmes as reproduced by Miles Birket Foster in his History of the Philharmonic Puzzi appearedfor the Society on May 22nd, 1820, Societyof London, but not again till April 9th the following year. Does this letter then refer to the engagement offered and accepted a month earlier than suggested; or was Puzzi contemplating a concert of his own (or under differentauspices)in June, and was he trying to avoid a possible clash? If any readersknow of such a concert given by Puzzi at that time I should be very glad to hear. The second find is one of my own. Recently I purchaseda bound of 185I which is sub-titled 'A Tribute Exhibitor copy of The Illustrated to the World's Industrial Jubilee'. In the preliminary matter, pp. XX and XXI, is listed the Sub-jury for Musical Instruments, and their awards. Here we read that a Prize Medal was adjudged to Callcot, J., U.K., 'for his invention of a French harp without loose crooks'. Callcot's 'Radius' French Horn, of which a specimen is now in the Bate Collection in Oxford, was written up first by myself and then
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by the late R. Morley-Pegge in GSJII and III and then more fully by the latterin his admirablebook on the FrenchHorn. It is surely curious to have discovered a printer'serror of more than a century ago.
PHILIP BATE

FOUR MORE i5TH-CENTURY REPRESENTATIONS STRINGED KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS

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The 'Checklist of Fifteenth-century Representations of Stringed Keyboard Instruments'published by Edmund Bowles in 1971,' and revised in 1977,2 catalogues twenty-one clavichords, fourteen harpsichords, and five 'variantforms'. We are glad to be able to supplement this valuable list with four representationsthat have come to our notice, all of which are to be found in the city of York.3
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