The Cobbe Collection of Keyboard Instruments with Composer Associations
The Cobbe Collection
of keyboard instruments with composer associations

Photo: David Hunt © Cobbe Collection Trust
SQUARE PIANOFORTE by John Broadwood and Sons, London, 1844
The property of the Royal Academy of Music, on permanent loan to the Cobbe Collection Trust.

By 1867 this instrument was in the possession of Edward Elgar’s father and uncle who together ran a piano business in Worcester. Elgar chose it from his father’s stock for his cottage near Malvern, and he inscribed on the soundboard names of some of the works he composed on it.


< previous instrument
next instrument >

 
© The Cobbe Collection Trust 2011