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HARPSICHORDS – FRENCH
Double-manual harpsichord after Claude Labreche, Carpentras 1690.
Source: Landesmuseum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Stuttgart, Germany.
2×8′, 1×4′ FF-f”’ 245×94 cm. a=(392, optional)-415-440.
Double-manual harpsichord after
Ionnes Couchet, François Blanchet 1758, Pascal Taskin 1781.
Source: Boston Museum of Fine Arts
2×8′, 1×4′ FF-f”’ 239×95 cm. a=415-440.
With peau de buffle register (optional)
Single-manual harpsichord after Vaudry, 17th century.
2×8′, GG/BB-c”’ (with short/broken octave in the bass, 54 keys). 205×80 cm. a=415.
Spinet after Michel Richard, Paris 1690.
Source: Cité de la Musique, Paris.
1×8′, GG-e”’, a=392-415-440.
HARPSICHORDS – GERMAN
Double-manual harpsichord after Hieronymus Hass.
2×8′, 1×4′, 1×16′. 269 x 100 cm. a=415-440.
German single-manual harpsichord after Friedrich Ring, Strasbourg 1700.
Source: Landesmuseum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Stuttgart, Germany.
Built in natural, varnished wood.
2×8′, FF-f”’. 220×93 cm., a=(392, optional)415-440.
Also available in a double manual version, with 2×8′, 1×4′, FF-f”’, 232×93 cm., a=415-440.
German single-manual harpsichord after Michael Mietke, Berlin 1710.
Painted black with chinoiserie, other decorations possible.
2×8′, FF/GG-e”’. 227×88 cm., a=415-440, brass stringing throughout.
Also available in a double manual version, with 2×8′, 1×4′, FF/GG-e”’, 239×88 cm., a=415-440, brass stringing throughout.
German single-manual harpsichord after Christian Vater, 1738.
2×8′, GG-AA-e”’. 199×86 cm. a=415-440, brass stringing throughout.
Also available in a double manual version, (only 2×8’), 2×8′, GG-AA-e”’. 199×86 cm. a=415-440.
HARPSICHORDS – FLEMISH
Single-manual harpsichord after I. Ruckers 1637, English Eighteenth Century Enlargement (added foot pedal to change the registration).
Source: Edinborough
2×8′, (1×4) GG-AA-f”’. 208×90 cm., a=392-415-440.
With machine stop, trolley wheels, block printed paper surrounding the soundboard. Same colour as the original (red). Because the two 8′ registers are both plucked in front of the 4′ register, the sound is more nasal and penetrating.
Double-manual harpsichord after Ruckers 1624.
Source: Museé Unterlinden, Colmar, France.
2×8’, 1×4’, FF-f’’’, 225 x 91 cm. a=415-440
Double-manual harpsichord after Ruckers/Goujon 1632/1745. (Neuchâtel).
2×8′, 1×4′ FF-f”’. 227×92 cm. a=415-440.
HARPSICHORDS – ITALIAN/IBERIAN
Double-manual harpsichord after Spanish examples.
2×8′, 1×4′, with peau de buffle. 245 x 96 cm. a=415-440.
Single-manual harpsichord after Bartolomeo Cristofori 2×8′, FF-GG-f”’. 220×87 cm., a=440-415, brass stringing throughout. ‘false inner-outer case’
Iberian single-manual harpsichord, J.J. Antunes 1789.
Source: Conservatorio de Lisboa, Portugal.
2×8′, FF-g”’. 250×93 cm., a=415-440, brass stringing throughout.
Single-manual Italian harpsichord after 18th century examples.
2×8′, BB-d”’, 210 x 89 cm., a=415-440, brass stringing throughout.
Built in maple wood.
CLAVICHORDS
Unfretted clavichord after Johann Heinrich Silbermann, Strasbourg ca. 1775.
FF-f”’, 133×49x14 cm. a=415.
Unfretted clavichord after J.G.G. Schiedmayer, Neustadt 1796
FF-f”’, 154×48x13 cm. a=415.
FORTEPIANOS
Fortepiano after Nanette Streicher, 1814.
Source: Wurtenbergisches Landesmuseum, Germany
FF’-f”’, 230×115 cm. a=430.
Fortepiano after Walter
Wooden jacks are standard in all harpsichords with the exception of the instrument after Friedrich Ring. All harpsichords have a transposing manual with the exception of the instrument after Vaudry.
Any kind of decoration or stand is possible.
Prices on request.
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