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Special Finchcocks Collection open evening

Waterdown House, Frant Road
Tuesday 14th October, 6:30-8:00pm

The wonderful collection of keyboard instruments at the Finchcocks Charity in Tunbridge Wells, will be opening its doors for the first time in conjunction with the Tunbridge Wells International Music Festival. 

Fourteen original and important period keyboard instruments from the seventeenth to the mid nineteen centuries are displayed and used regularly by keyboard players, professionals, amateurs, students and children. 

These instruments have been collected over the years by Richard Burnett and form the “Richard Burnett Collection”. Dating from 1700 – 1866, the collection features a spinet, harpsichord, clavichord, English and Viennese pianos from renowned makers such as Clementi, Erard, Pleyel, Graf, Kirckman, Rosenberger and Walter. 

The evening will include a guided tour of the instruments and a chance to play some of the them yourselves.

For more information, see Tunbridge Wells International Music Festival.