EDWARD L. KOTTICK, Emeritus Professor of Musicology at the University of Iowa, is author of The Harpsichord Owner's Guide. A builder himself, he writes a regular column in Continuo magazine for owners and builders.GEORGE LUCKTENBERG, Adjunct Professor of Music and Artist-in-Residence at Reinhardt College, has been director of the Aliénor Harpsichord Composition Awards since 1980.

OInformation for when you travel. By country and city, you are guided to the best instrument collections in Europe. For each site is provided a substantial discussion of the instruments, location, address, and hours of admission. There are abundant black and white (many full-page) photos, a glossary of terms associated with earlier instruments, and an index of makers.O NPiano & Keyboard Growing out of the authorsO visits to forty-seven collections in Europe, this lively guidebook offers intimate glimpses at a great variety of instruments. It focuses on the more important and unusual holdings in each museum, such as the Cristofori pianos in Rome and Leipzig and the earliest known English double-manual instrumentNa 1700 harpsichord by Tisseran, now in Oxford. In addition, the authors provide travelers with essential information for each museum.

• Preface by George LucktenbergAcknowledgmentsIntroductionI. AustriaEisenstadt: Burgenla"ndsiche Landesmuseum; Joseph Haydn Museum; Franz Liszt MuseumSalzburg: Mozart's Birthplace; Museum Carolino AugustemVienna: Kunsthistorisches Museum; Technisches Museum fu"r Industrie und GewerbeII. BelgiumAntwerpL Vleeshuis Museum; Plantin-Moretus MuseumBruges: Gruuthuse MuseumBrussels: Muse'e Instrumental de BruxellesIII. Czech RepublicPrague: National MuseumIV. DenmarkCopenhagen: Musikhistorisk Museum og Carl Claudius' SamlingV. FranceParis: Muse'e de la Musique; Muse'e des Arts et Me'tiersVI. GermanyBad Krozlingen: Neumeyer-Junghanns-Tracey CollectionBerlin: Schloss Charlottenburg; Staatliches Institut fu"r Musikforschung PreussischerKulturbesitzEisenach: Bach-HausHalle: Ha"ndel-HausHamburg: Museum fu"r Kunst und Gewerbe; Museum fu"r Hamburgische GeschichteLiepzig: Musikinstrumenten-Museum der Universita"t LeipzigMunich: Deutsches Museum; Stadt MuseumNuremberg: Germanisches NationalmuseumStuttgart: Wu"rttembergisches LandesmuseumVII. HungaryBudapest: Hungarian National MuseumVIII. IrelandDublin: National Museum of IrelandIX. ItalyFlorence: Museo degli Strumenti Musicali del Conservatorio di Musica Luigi CherubiniMilan: Museo degli Strumenti Musicali, Castello SforzescoRome: Museo Nazionale di Strumenti MusicaliX. The NetherlandsThe Hague: GemeentemuseumXI. NorwayOslo: Norsk Folk MuseumTrondheim: Ringve MuseumXII. PortugalLisbon: Museu da Mu'sicaXIII. SpainBarcelona: Museu de la Mu'sicaXIV. SwedenStockholm: Stiftelsen Musikkulturens fra"mjande; MusikmuseetXV. SwitzerlandBasel: Historisches MuseumXVI. United KingdomEdinburgh: University of Edinburgh CollectionGoudhurst: Finchcocks CollectionLiverpool: Liverpool MuseumLondon: Fenton House; Royal College of Music Collection; Victoria and Albert MuseumOxford: Bate Collection of Musical InstrumentsGlossaryIndex of Makers