Research

The Klaverens Hus has a research programme on above all Swedish piano production, covering important parts of the three centuries when there were factories operating here:

The keyboard instrument culture of the Gustavian period – uniformity, variety and development in Swedish piano building c. 1770- 1820

The piano in Sweden during the nineteenth century – industrialization and technical development (c. 1820-c. 1890).

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The inverted grand piano. On the so-called ’banana grand piano’ by Malmsjö (1930s)

Georg Bolin and the piano (c. 1954 to the middle of the 1960s)

The piano and the art industry – festivity and every-day instruments 1850-1985

Regional interplay in Swedish keyboard instrument production. The influence of the big factories on local trade and industry. The West Swedish example 1850-1985.

On the 12th of May 2005, Eva Helenius, secretary of the society, gave a lecture in the Värmlandsarkiv in Karlstad that presents this project.

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Many of the instruments in our collections also invite research, among them a grand piano with the case by Érard, probably the London factory, and the action by Andreas Marschall in Copenhagen. Read more here.

Conferences

Eva Helenius has participated in the seventh international clavichord symposium that took place 7th to 10th September 2005 in Magnano, North Italy. Her paper had the title ‘Aspects of the clavichord in Sweden in the nineteenth century’

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From 7th to 9th September 2006, the Stockholm Music Museum will arrange a conference on our most famous clavichord maker Pehr Lindholm (1741?-1813). The Klaverens Hus will be represented by Eva Helenius.