"Until the autumn of 1934 I had no harpsichord of my own. But a group of people in Boston made it possible for me to buy the Dolmetsch-Chickering instrument that had belonged to Busoni (illus.1). I used this instrument for the first time in Boston at the Harvard Musical Association. This concert began inauspiciously enough with my leaving behind the key to the instrument in Cambridge, and having to send someone to fetch it."
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Ralph Kirkpatrick, Fifty Years of Harpsichord Playing, Early Music, Vol. 11, No. 1, Tenth Anniversary Issue (Jan., 1983), pp. 31-41
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