Search database for information on musical instruments held in public collections.
http://www.mimo-international.com/MIMO/
The UK’s largest online collection of historical musical instruments, including 151 harpsichords, held in more than 100 musical instrument collections in the UK. http://minim.ac.uk/index.php/explore/?instrument=9148
Musical Instrument Museums Edinburgh (see below for direct link to Russell Collection)
http://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/library-museum-gallery/crc/collections
Europeana- Details of Harpsichord related items from a range of Europe’s leading galleries, libraries, archives and museums. http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=harpsichords
Edward L Kottick with George Lucktenberg – ‘Early Keyboard Instruments in European Museums’
Indiana University Press, 1997. http://zhi.net/music/pub7a.shtml
Location and details of Historic Instruments in various Collections
http://www.williamhorn.it/disegniTecnici/disegni.xls
The Cobbe Collection of Keyboard Instruments, Hatchlands, Surrey http://www.cobbecollection.co.uk
The Russell Collection, University of Edinburgh https://collections.ed.ac.uk/record/684
The Bate Collection, Oxford University http://www.bate.ox.ac.uk/
The Bate Collection of Musical Instruments, University of Oxford.
A short booklet describing members of the harpsichord family exhibited in the gallery.
http://www.lulu.com/shop/peter-mole/an-oxford-collection/paperback/product-18703044.html
Catalogue of keyboard instruments in the Royal College of Music Museum, London
https://issuu.com/royalcollegeofmusic/docs/keyboard_catalogue_reduced/c/smraslb
V&A Museum Collection, London. Information about the collection, dispersed or put into store, February 2010. http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/m/musical-instruments/
Horniman Museum, Forest Hill, London, SE23 3PQ
Includes a selection of early keyboard instruments from the V&A collection
http://www.horniman.ac.uk/visit/displays/display/music-gallery/display-chapter/music-gallery
The Benton Fletcher Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments
housed at Fenton House, Hampstead, London, NW3 6SP
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/fenton-house/things-to-see-and-do/
See ‘Archive’>’Reviews’ re a book by Mimi S Waitzman describing the Collection & its history.
The Royal Northern College of Instruments, Manchester, has a valuable collection of keyboard instruments including an Italian pentagonal virginal, bentside spinets by Harris and Anon and harpsichords by Culliford and Shudi/Broadwood. http://www.rncm.ac.uk/research/resources/collection/#
Contact the Librarian to make an appointment.
The Hans Adler Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. http://hansadlercollection.blogspot.com/
The Andreas Beurmann collection of historical keyboard instruments.
http://www.mkg-hamburg.de/en/collection/permanent-collection/musical-instruments.html
Catalogue “Portrait of a Collection. The Beurmann Collection in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg and at the estate of Hasselburg in East Holstein, Germany.” http://www.olms.de/search/Detail.aspx?pr=2003518
For Link to Real samples from this collection, see ‘Harpsichord– >About’ page
Cité de la Musique Philharmonie de Paris http://collectionsdumusee.philharmoniedeparis.fr/claviers-incontournables.aspx
‘Tagliavini Collection’, Vols.1&2 full catalogue in Italian; Vol.3 summary in English,
Published by Bononia University Press http://www.buponline.com
Museum Vleeshuis/Sound of the City (Museums & Heritage Antwerp) http://search.museumvleeshuis.be/home