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The Archaeological Museum of Los Banos and has a valuable new piece in his presentation.
It is the inventor of the pianoforte alhameño Tornel Tadeo in the eighteenth century and that the City Council for alhameños recovered.
Carmen Maria Rodriguez, Councillor for Culture and Heritage, presented the work this morning accompanied by her a representative of the family who treasured, Gabriel Alvarez and Olga Buendia Briona, restorative has been worth it.
The mayor recalled that in May 2011 was made a first phase of action on the pianoforte concert presented during a harmonium at the Museum a few days ago and finally completed the restoration of the fortepiano, with its value and exhibition at the Museum Archaeological Los Baños.
The Tadeo alhameño Tornel was an important musical instrument maker in the eighteenth century and his specialty was the harpsichord, piano and organ.
The head of Culture has said that, apparently, only two instruments belonging to Thaddeus Tornel workshop, which have been preserved to this day, the piano outlined in Museum of Fine Arts of Murcia and the so-called "Pianoforte" acquired by the city of Alhama de Murcia and from the Family Collection of Calasparra Buendía Alvarez.
In May 2008 by Gabriel Alvarez Buendia, made an offer to sell to the city of Alhama de Murcia.
This exceptional work was done called Pianoforte in 1784 and responds to the type of string instruments, piano being the forerunner of today.
The City Council has restored furniture is walnut, not the musical as reported by Rodriguez, who also noted that on the soundboard of the instrument is signed Tornel Tadeo, the year of construction, 1784 and the number the instrument, 28.
For its part, the keyboard is a simple mechanism of action and has 59 letters carved in ebony and bone.
The mayor also recalled that the June 9, 2009, the prestigious restaurateur André Extermann Swiss came to Alhama de Murcia to specify and verify the reports and studies by the musicologist Victor Alejandro Masso and Javier Martinez and claimed that after his musical restoration, if is done, return to sound and that it was a tool of special interest
On the other hand, the council also had to alhameños that the City has received an email inquiring about the instrument from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, through its director Eleonora Luciano interested in the Pianoforte de Alhama and its membership Marquesa de Pontejos, sister of the Count of Floridablanca, since in that museum is the famous painting by Goya de la Marquesa.
The representative of the family wanted to highlight that, despite having offers from several major institutions and individuals to acquire the valuable instrument, Alhama chosen as the place where he was the inventor and to understand that being part of a institution could be seen and enjoyed behaved.
The restoration has given details of the work developed in the instrument, noting that it has retained all the old and have been placed only a few new parts needed for its value.
He added that, furthermore, has been consolidated to prevent deterioration and has made a special case of a possible transport security.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alhama de Murcia
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