61. Home|Collections|Collection Of Ancient Musical Instruments|Keyboard Instruments| This harpsichord is the oldest preserved and signed instrument from the Vienna area. It has a very short vibrating string length, indicating a high tuning. http://www.khm.at/staticE/page197.html

Ancient Musical Instruments Stringed instruments Plucked instruments Keyboard instruments Wind instruments ... Publications Harpsichord Johann Christoph Pantzner Vienna , 1747 Case made of walnut; stand in the form of a Baroque chest of drawers. SAM Inv. No. 848 < back next >>

62. Piano, Organ, Harpsichord Piano and Others. Piano harpsichord Organ Index Musical instruments HyperPhysics***** Sound Go Back. http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/music/piano.html

Piano and Others Piano Harpsichord Organ Index Musical instruments HyperPhysics Sound ... Go Back

63. Toms Harpsichord Gallery One harpsichord Gallery I Historical instruments I modelled the decoration of a few of my instruments on this harpsichord. With only one 8 and one 4 , http://www.pixton.org/TomsHpschdGallery1.html

Home Tom Pixton Publications Romania ... Site Map Harpsichord Gallery Gallery I, Historical Instrument Gallery II, Pixton Instruments Harpsichord Gallery I: Historical Instruments 1748 Goermans 1642 Ruckers 1745 Dulcken 1640 Ruckers ... 168X-1754 Ruckers-Blanchet 1758 Goermans This harpsichord was made in 1748 by a Flemish maker working in Paris, Jacques Goermans. It was owned by Tye and Caroline Cunningham of Haverford, Pennsylvania, and I first saw and played it in 1970.Tye had bought it at the end of World War II in a Paris antique shop, for some absurdly small amount of money. He and Caroline, the parents of the famous violist Sarah Cunningham, were far ahead of the trend in the 1960s of an appreciation of historical instruments. This two-manual instrument, with a range of four and 3/4 octaves (GG-e'''), has three choirs of string and jacks, with the standard shove coupler found on French instruments of the period. It had been restored by the Hubbard shop in Boston in 1968 (where I had seen it, as an awestruck teenage harpsichordist), and was one of the first antiques I was able to play, photograph and study intensely. It is shown in the Cunningham's beautiful music room of their house in Haverford, a room filled with museum-quality musical instruments.

64. Toms Second Gallery harpsichord Gallery Gallery I Historical Instrument Gallery II Pixton instruments. harpsichord Gallery II Pixton instruments http://www.pixton.org/TomsHpschdGallery2.html

Home Tom Pixton Publications Romania ... Site Map Harpsichord Gallery Gallery I: Historical Instrument Gallery II: Pixton Instruments Harpsichord Gallery II: Pixton Instruments 1978 Flemish double 1979 17th-century French-style double 1980 18th-century Flemish-style concert double 18th-century Blanchet-style concert double, 1982-1984 ... 1984 Pedal Harpsichord I set up my work shop in Boston after graduating from Brandeis in 1976. I had made two harpsichords by that time, and thought I knew how to do everything on my own. Through a very painful self-education, I eventually learned how to be a competent cabinet maker, historical researcher, and business man. The exquisite decorations on my instruments were executed by my wife, Barbara Pixton, who eventually became a full-time professional artist after painting these instruments as a sideline. By the time I had made eighteen harpsichords, in 1983, I realized that my skills as a businessman were more marketable in the real world than the harpsichord world, which, I discovered in the 1980's, was rapidly becoming a make-believe world, populated by self-aggrandizing dilletantes.

65. Harpsichords In Tune With The Times But harpsichord enthusiasts who gathered this week in Washington for a workshop are I think it s one of the most elegant instruments, Goebel says. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/27/AR2005072702524.

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66. MUSEA ANTWERPEN - Museum Vleeshuis Most instruments are built by members of the RuckersCouchet family. This family of harpsichord builders dominated the production in Antwerp at the end of http://museum.antwerpen.be/vleeshuis/collectie_06_eng.html

Harpsichords built by the Ruckers-Couchet Family Playthings for the Muses The historical musical instruments in the Vleeshuis Stradivarius among Harpsichord Builders The Ruckers-Couchet family dominated the Antwerp production of keyboard instruments from the end of the 16th until the middle of the 17th century. Their harpsichords found their way into all European countries and some even travelled as far as South America. The instruments built by Hans, Joannes and Andreas Ruckers (first half of the 17th century) are exhibited on a platform on the ground floor. They are flanked by some harpsichords from Antwerp builders, active during the second half of the 18th century (Jacobus van den Elsche and Joannes Petrus Bull). In the centre of the hall on the ground floor, a number of Antwerp harpsichord from the 17th century are displayed on a platform. Most instruments are built by members of the Ruckers-Couchet family. This family of harpsichord builders dominated the production in Antwerp at the end of the 16th century and during the first half of the 17th century. The sound boxes of the Ruckers harpsichords are often painted with imitation marble designs. Inside flowers and insects are drawn on the soundboard. Around the upright boards above the soundboard, above and along the keys and on the inside of the lid decorative paper is glued with arabesques and dolphin motives in black against a white background.The lid often has moralising inscriptions. The inside of the lid is often decorated with a charming scene.

67. Oddmusic.com Musical Instrument Gallery With a 61 note range, the instruments size is 6 x 3 ft. weighing approximately 150 lbs, Click here to listen to a sample of the LEGO harpsichord http://www.oddmusic.com/gallery/om21250.html

Oddmusic Musical Instrument Gallery Previous image Back to Gallery Listings Next image Keys and Jacks Henry plays a tune LEGO Harpsichord Click here to listen to a sample of the LEGO Harpsichord For more information about the LEGO Harpsichord and Henry Lim's other LEGO sculptures, visit his website at henrylim.org

68. EMC Early Keyboard Instruments Keyboard instruments harpsichord Sounds of harpsichords and Related instruments Early Keyboard Links Other Sheet Music Other CDs Other Books http://earlymusichicago.org/instruments_keyboard.htm

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69. History Of The Harpsichord Flemish harpsichords are in fact very similar to Italian instruments with some important differences that will be mentioned later. http://cfaonline.asu.edu/haefer/classes/564/564.papers/pierceharpsichord.html

History of the Harpsichord in Eighteenth Century France and the Flemish Influence Janet Pierce History of Musical Instruments Dr. Haefer, Professor Introduction General Background information Basics of the Harpsichord Brief Historical Reference The harpsichord was the largest and most important domestic keyboard musical instrument from the sixteenth through the mid-eighteenth centuries. During the latter part of the eighteenth century, the harpsichord began to lose favor, due mainly to the introduction of the piano. Details of harpsichords before the sixteenth century can only be found in manuscripts and from illustrations. A drawing from c. 1440 that is located in the Grand Ducal Library of Weimar indicates the establishment of a general layout. Manuals and Octaves th and 18 th -century fans shows harpsichords portrayed with two manuals, irrespective of nationality. The author of the study, Beryl Kenyon dePascual, suggests that the harpsichord with two manuals may have been considered a symbol of elegant living. The fans were made of high-quality materials, indicating that they belonged to nobility. Presumably, only top-of-the-range models would be considered suitable to feature on fashion accessories designed for people of quality. Jacks Below is a partial sketch of a jack and its main components.

70. Harpsichord The harpsichord. Of all plucked instruments whose notes are varied basically by 1982 by Robert Donington (Music and its instruments). harpsichord Links http://www.lichtensteiger.de/harpsichord.html

The Harpsichord "Of all plucked instruments whose notes are varied basically by having strings of different lengths, the harpsichord has the greatest scope and versatility, and is the least dispensable for its own (chiefly baroque) music. There are various sizes and designs, having various supplementary resources, but all have harp-like strings, coupled to a resonant soundboard, and excited by plucking through a keyboard mechanism. Incisiveness and transparency are the chief characteristics of such an instrument. It is of no use asking a harpsichord to sound elusive and mysterious, as the piano can; its poetry is quite otherwise achieved. On the other hand, though its duration of sound is considerably shorter, it does not have to be evanescent, and with a good instrument and a proper touch it need not in the least sound dry, but on the contrary is capable of a splendid flow of warmth and brilliance. This brilliance will not be massive or opaque, but crystal-clear both in solos and in accompaniment; and the incisiveness and transparency thus imparted are the very qualities which make the harpsichord so necessary for baroque music. The mechanism of a harpsichord consists of keys each of which raises one or more jacks, according to the set or sets of strings on which a note is to be played. The jack brings into contact with its strings a small, hinged plectrum of quill, leather or some plastic substitute (

71. SJSU Historical Keyboard Collection - The Collection The harpsichord, one of the primary keyboards of the Baroque period His early instruments were similar in size and construction to the harpsichord, http://www.music.sjsu.edu/HistoricalKeyboardCollection/

The Collection In February 2005 these ancestors of the modern piano were featured in a concert series called Plucked or Struck? The History of the Keyboard . Guest artists presented lecture recitals and performed works on these period instruments. The San Jose Mercury News featured a story about the concert series titled Ancestors of the Piano The Instruments Clavichord by Kurt Sperrhake (Passau, Germany circa 1953) Location: The Beethoven Center, fifth floor Martin Luther King Library Listen to the instrument More about the music This instrument is based on design elements common to many 18th century clavichords and was given to the Beethoven Center by Edyth Wagner through her brother Gene. Kurt Speerhake, part of the early instrument movement of the 1950's, made reproductions intended for use in concerts. The clavichord makes sound when a key is depressed engaging a nail which touches the string. Because of this mechanism, the instrument can play both soft and medium soft levels. Despite this, it remains a quiet and intimate instrument. An unusual feature of the clavichord is the ability to effect a vibrato by holding down the key and wiggling one's finger. This is known as a Bebung and is unique to this keyboard. Harpsichords by Robert Wilson (Lambertville, New Jersey)

72. Instruments The harpsichord At A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance instruments; harpsichord Photo Gallery At HPSCHDL harpsichords and Related Topics http://plato.acadiau.ca/courses/musi/callon/2273/instr.htm

Links to History of Musical Instruments Gordon J. Callon site map Museums and Collections Historical Guides ... Early Music FAQ list of Early Instrument Resources [Todd Michel McComb] Information about Instruments Music Library University of Washington Grove Music Online [Open access only to general information and demos; full access only by subscription] Museums and Collections Brass Guitar Piano Strings ... CIMCIM Members' Museums [Musical Instrument Museums] C I M C I M Comité International des Musées et Collections d'Instruments de Musique / Comité Internacional de Museos y Colecciones de Instrumentos Musicales / International Committee of Musical Instrument Museums and Collections International Directory of Musical Instrument Collections Recommendations for the Conservation of Musical Instruments: An Annotated Bibliography (CIMCIM Publications No.1, 1993) Technical Drawings of Musical Instruments in Public Collections of the World National Music Museum: America's Shrine to Music Museum The University of South Dakota The Bate Collection of Musical Instruments ... The Demonstrations [Audio samples of instruments in the collection, in RealAudio and MPEG formats] Royal College of Music , London: Museum of Instruments [Elizabeth Wells MBE Curator Royal Northern College of Music , Manchester: Collection of Historic Musical Instruments Museum of Musical Instruments Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments Yale University ... University of Michigan (MIM) / Muziekinstrumentenmuseum / Musical Instrument Museum (MRAH) / De Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis (KMKG), Bruxelles (Belgium)]

73. Double-manual Harpsichord - Joseph Tisseran This is the earliest surviving English doublemanual harpsichord. It was presented to the Bate Collection, with other instruments from the Michael http://www.bate.ox.ac.uk/instruments/dm-harpsichord.html

About the Bate home The Collection HARPSICHORD, Joseph Tisseran, 1700 The mark on the nameboard is Josephus Tisseran Faciebat Londini; this is also inscribed below the keyboards in ink, with the date 1700, which has been erased and changed to 1710. The lengthy quotation in Boalch is wrong; David Law has provided clear photographs, taken under differing lights, which prove beyond doubt that the original date was 1700, and that attempts were made to erase the first and replace it with a 1. It can only be presumed that it was deemed advisable to make it appear to be a fairly new instrument when it was sold in 1712. The front face of the wrestplank is inscribed Josephus Tissern [sic] Londini. The range is 4 octaves, GG/BB-d"' with split Eb to give both BBb(front) and Eb (back); the disposition is now 2 x 8' doglegged + 1 x 4' with three stops, but the original disposition was clearly with a shove coupler, for traces of the coupler dogs remain on the lower-manual keys. Whether this conversion was done at the time that the date was changed, or rather later in the eighteenth century, is debatable. If the former, it would be earlier than this disposition is usually considered to have been used, but that in itself is not necessarily against it. The dogleg refers to the front row of jacks which are full width in the upper part of their length, and narrower in the lower part, looking a little like a dog's hind leg. The resulting knee rests on the end of the upper-manual key, the bottom of the jack resting on the lower-manual key. Thus this rank can be played from either manual, whereas the back 8' rank, and the 4', can only be played from the lower. A stop lever to each rank moves it away from the strings, that for this rank on the right, and those for the 4', which is the rearmost rank rather than being in the middle as it is on French harpsichords, and the back 8' on the left, and thus each rank may be silenced. However, if this doglegged rank is 'on' it will always sound because, since one cannot move either manual, whichever manual one uses, the front 8' will be played. As a result the available contrasts are more limited than they are with the shove coupler.

74. Music Accessories And Instruments. Shop Online harpsichord ACCESSORIES instruments 30 LAST NEW REALISES With the Roland C-80-AK Digital harpsichord, early music enthusiasts can revel in a http://www.free-scores.com/boutique/boutique-accessoires-uk.php?CATEGORIE=210&af

75. Keyboard Instruments At The National Music Museum Annotated Checklist of Keyboard instruments (harpsichords, Clavichords, Pianos Susana Henriques Caldeira, An Italian harpsichord Built About 1700 http://www.usd.edu/smm/KEYBOARD.HTM

Home Collections Virtual Tour Calendar ... Maker Index Annotated Checklist of Keyboard Instruments (Harpsichords, Clavichords, Pianos, Pipe Organs) Seventeen instruments are displayed in the Abell Gallery for keyboard instruments. A tour guide opens the doors of an upright grand piano by Clementi Company , London, ca. 1800-1818. In the foreground is a grand piano by , Vienna, ca. 1815. To the right is a lyrafluegel by Johann Christian Schleip , Berlin, ca. 1825 and several English square pianos, dated , and , designed for home use. Checklist Index Index of Makers, Builders, and Manufacturers Clavichords Harpsichords Pianos, European ... Modern Instruments of Historical Types Specific Makers, Builders, and Manufacturers Albrecht , Charles Antunes , Manuel Astor , George Babcock , Alpheus Bas , Louis Beale , F., and Co. Bordas , Geronimo Broadwood , Johannes Broadwood, John, and Sons: Buntebart , Gabriel Calisto Chickering and Sons: Clark Piano Co., Melville Clementi and Co.: Davison and Redpath Decker Brothers: Dieffenbach,

76. Harpsichord And Clavichord harpsichords and clavichords instruments, players, builders, repertoire, harpsichord and Clavichord maker in Tokyo, whose instruments is used in many http://d.webring.com/hub?ring=hpsiclavi

77. Harpsichord - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia The Italian harpsichord makers made singlemanual instruments with a very light construction and relatively little string tension. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinet

Harpsichord From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (Redirected from Spinet Harpsichord in Flemish style; for more info, click the image. A harpsichord is the general term for a family of European keyboard instruments , including the large instrument nowadays called a harpsichord, but also the smaller virginals , the muselar virginals and the spinet . All these instruments generate sound by plucking a string rather than striking one, as in a piano or clavichord . The harpsichord family is thought to have originated when a keyboard was affixed to the end of a psaltery , providing a mechanical means to pluck the strings. Contents History Music Action Variants ... edit History Virginal, probably English, late 17th century The origin of the harpsichord is obscure, but is known to have begun some time during the high or late Middle Ages . The earliest written references to the instrument date from the and it is possible that the harpsichord was indeed invented in that century. This was a time in which advances in clockwork and other forms of early pre-modern machinery were being made and thus a likely time for the invention of those mechanical aspects that distinguish a harpsichord from a psaltery . A Latin manuscript work on musical instruments by Henri Arnault de Zwolle , c.

78. Links -- Instruments Musical instruments harpsichord, Clavichord, et c. The Russell Collection of Early Keyboard instruments, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland Robert http://www.phy.duke.edu/~dtl/36linki.html

Links to Acoustics and Music Resources Musical Instruments If you know of other web sites that might be included here, please suggest them to the instructor [please enter "36newlink" as the Subject of your e-mail message]. If you encounter problems with any of the links listed here, please alert the instructor [please enter "36badlink" as the Subject of your e-mail message]. Musical Instruments: General Smithsonian Institution "Music Room" Musical Instrument Makers, Sources, and Services , a growing commercial database of information for 16 countries, from the US to Russia. Organized by country and type of instrument. Royal College of Music , London An index of technical drawings of a wide variety of musical instruments. International Committee of Musical Instrument Museums and Collections Musical Instruments: Early winds and strings (including instruments faithful to early design principles) Douglas Gunn's Links (Ireland) an extensive set of links on early musical instruments and a variety of related subjects.

79. Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Harpsichord Makers of the harpsichord and Clavichord, 1440 to 1840. 2d ed. Early Keyboard instruments. In The New Grove Musical instruments Series. http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/harpsichord.htm

Smithsonian Institution References for the Harpsichord and Clavichord Information or research assistance regarding the harpsicord and clavicord is frequently requested from the Smithsonian Institution. The following information has been prepared to assist those interested in this topic. Boalch, Donald Howard. Makers of the Harpsichord and Clavichord, 1440 to 1840 . 2d ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974. Hoover, Cynthia A. Harpsichords and Clavichords . Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1969. (Out-of-print but available in libraries) Hubbard, Frank. Three Centuries of Harpsichord Making . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967. Marcuse, Sibyl. Musical Instruments: A Comprehensive Dictionary . 1964. Reprint. New York: W.W. Norton, 1975. Neupert, Hanns. Das Klavichord . Kassel: Barenreiter-Verlag, 1948. Randel, Don Michael, ed. The New Harvard Dictionary of Music . Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1986. Ripin, Edwin M., et al. "Early Keyboard Instruments." In The New Grove Musical Instruments Series . New York: W.W. Norton, 1989.

80. The Raymond Russell Collection Of Early Keyboard Instruments Russell was an accomplished harpsichord player and passionately keen to see the of building harpsichords, clavichords, pianos and early instruments http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/russell/history/russell.html

Raymond Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments St Cecilia's Hall Museum of Instruments, Niddry Street, Cowgate, Edinburgh EH1 1LJ A Brief History of the Raymond Russell Collection Contents Raymond Russell The Raymond Russell Collection Comes to Edinburgh The Collection Grows - 1968 to the Present Research and Teaching ... Return to Welcome Page The Raymond Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments, housed in St Cecilia's Hall on Niddry Street in the Cowgate, Edinburgh is one of the world's most important collections of its type, and attracts visitors from all over the globe. It presently comprises some 51 instruments dating from the middle of the sixteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth century. Most of these are the precursors of the piano - harpsichords, spinets and virginals which produce sound by mechanically plucking the strings, and a large number of restored clavichords which strike the strings with metal blades know as tangents. But there are also some important early pianofortes, including the earliest extant English grand piano, together with a number of small pipe organs from the same historical period covered by the rest of the instruments. Raymond Russell Photograph by Joe Rock Raymond Russell FSA FTCL (1922-1964), after whom the Collection is named, was a man of many varied interests. He began to collect early keyboard instruments shortly after the Second World War and in 1959 published his book

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