Cornell University

Janie Cole, “Global Circulation of Renaissance Keyboards in Early Modern Sub-Saharan Africa 

Kirsten Paige, “Micro-Climates, Micro-Fibers, and the Climate-Resistant Piano, ca. 1900 

Fanny Gribenski, “The Organ as Colonial Infrastructure 

Annette Richards and David Yearsley, “Catastrophe and the Cornell Organs: Floods, Fires and the Future 

 

This event is part of the symposium “Sustaining Keyboards” (September 15-16, 2023). The symposium asks how notions of sustainability might prompt us to think anew about keyboard histories, embedded as they are in ecologies of nature and commerce, artifice and art, craft and industry. To what extent are those histories, and the instruments that embody them, sustainable into an uncertain future? Complete schedule available at https://historicalkeyboards.as.cornell.edu/sustaining-keyboards-september-15-16

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