Rare clavichord makes history.(ENTERTAINMENT)

From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) | Date: April 24, 2005| Author: Anthony, Michael | Copyright information

Byline: Michael Anthony; Staff Writer

The Schubert Club's Museum of Musical Instruments contains hundreds of rare old keyboards, flutes, Indian sitars and even a few early radio receivers. One instrument, a clavichord that has been sitting in a warehouse for 30 years, is not only a good deal older than anyone had thought (244 years), but has been judged by a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to be one of the oldest instruments of its type in the United States and...

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