Anne's Harpsichords » Presentations

Boston Early Music Festival Exhibition June 15-18, 2011

Administrator — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 03:12:11 +0000

I’ll be holding down the fort with Carey Beebe, discussing TPW kits showing instruments and kits from The Paris Workshop at the Boston Early Music Festival Exhibition at the Radisson hotel in downtown Boston from June 15-18.

Come see a stage 1 kit as it comes, and a completed French single!

For more information see: www.bemf.org andThe Paris Workshop

September 2010 Westfield Center Conference on Chopin at Yale

Administrator — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 02:34:44 +0000

An invited speaker, Anne will be demonstrating and discussing 19th century pianos with the conference participants using Yale’s prestigious instrument collection as we discuss performance practice and instruments appropriate to Chopin’s music.

For more information go to:
The Westfield Center

Speaking at ViennaTalk 2010

Administrator — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 20:15:28 +0000

September 19, 2010

Presenting a paper on “Impact Dynamics of Felt Piano Hammers” with Dr. Stephen Birkett at ViennaTalk 2010 in Vienna, Austria.

For details please see: http://viennatalk.mdw.ac.at/

Speaking at AMIS 2010 in Washington, DC, at Library of Congress

Administrator — Thu, 27 May 2010 02:25:32 +0000

Presenting paper on piano touch and tone perception and research at the American Musical Instrument Society Conference at the Library of Congress, May 26-29th.

for more information see:
AMIS

Boston Early Music Festival: The Paris Workshop

Administrator — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:39:38 +0000

The Paris Workshop comes to Boston, bringing kits you can see and touch. I’ll be helping Carey Beebe run the booth Friday and Saturday, June 11 and 12. Come visit!

Our new Italian Virginal kit is a delight both as a kit and an instrument. I’ll be bringing one home for some lucky new owner.

Haptics 2009

Administrator — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:40:57 +0000

Invited speaker at the EROI / University of Rochester Conference on Keytouch Haptics, discussing the state of key touch research for piano actions.

The Eastman Rochester Organ Initiative

Presentation on high speed video photography techniques & 18th and 19th century piano actions

Administrator — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:18:43 +0000

On May 30, 2008, Anne gave a presentation at the annual meeting of the American Musical Instrument Society held at the Cantos Music Foundation, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on the use of high speed video photography techniques for analysis of 18th and 19th century piano actions.