This partnership between the Sigal Music Museum, the Joyce and Henry Schwob School of Music of Columbus State University, and the Bo Bartlett Center has been planned since early 2021. The goal for this exhibit was to provide visitors with the kind of immersive experience that the Sigal Music Museum provides on its premises, but showcasing the talent of the Schwob School of Music’s talent through performances on the instruments in the Bo Bartlett Center’s facilities.

The keyboards featured in in this exhibit—two harpsichords and four pianos—are some of the finest examples of those instruments from the most renowned makers, or schools of makers, in Europe and the United States at the time. These instruments were hand-selected to display those instruments with exemplary and important histories, from who owned them, to who may have played them, to their unique provenance or as an example of a commonly owed instrument of their time.