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Colt Clavier Collection. The Colt Clavier Collection was a collection of historical keyboard instruments located in Bethersden, Kent, England. Consisting mostly of 18th and 19th-century pianos, it also included a few harpsichords and a few unusual keyboards which defy standard categorisation. It was thought one of the most important collections ...
Finchcocks is an early Georgian manor house in Goudhurst, Kent. For 45 years it housed a large, visitor-friendly museum of historical keyboard instruments, displaying a collection of harpsichords, clavichords, fortepianos, square pianos, organs and other musical instruments. The museum was run by the owners of the house, Richard and Katrina ...
Country house contents auctions have been held formally since at least the mid 18th century, when dedicated auction houses were founded. The main auctioneers coordinating these sales today are Sotheby's, Christie's and Bonhams, with other auctions conducted by Lawrence's. A high quality auction catalogue is also published, giving details and ...
Bonhams is a privately owned international auction house and one of the world's oldest and largest auctioneers of fine art and antiques. It was formed by the merger in November 2001 of Bonhams & Brooks and Phillips Son & Neale. This brought together two of the four surviving Georgian auction houses in London, Bonhams having been founded in 1793 ...
Christie's American branch at Rockefeller Center in New York. Christie's is a British auction house founded in 1766 by James Christie. Its main premises are on King Street, St James's in London, and it has additional salerooms in New York, Paris, Hong Kong, Milan, Amsterdam, Geneva, Shanghai, and Dubai. [ 3] It is owned by Groupe Artémis, the ...
The Cox family, with three piano-playing daughters, have regularly acted as hosts for players in the Leeds International Piano Competition. The firm was founded in 2012 after a three-year period of planning and research. The first three Cavendish pianos were shown at the Musikmesse trade fair in Frankfurt in 2012.
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Lyon & Turnbull is a privately owned international auction house located in Scotland. Established in 1826, it is Scotland’s oldest auction house. The company is the largest independent auction house in the United Kingdom outside of London and one of the fastest growing auction houses in the UK . The firm has a saleroom in Edinburgh with ...