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Unknown Binding: 28 pages.
Publisher: The Friends of St. Cecilia's Hal
Language: English

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Unknown Binding: 103 pages.
Publisher: Musical Instrument Collection, Music Dept., Haags Gemeentemusuem
Language: English

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A most comprehensive guide to the harpsichord - a must for all harpsichord students! She has done very well at the difficult job of presenting an entire field in a well-balanced, comprehensive fashion.

Paperback: 267 pages.
Publisher: Amadeus Press; New Ed edition
Language: English

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This book, intended as a source of information for all those concerned with early keyboard instruments, has been compiled with the help of owners, curators and restorers worldwide. The first 84 tables give measurements of surviving strings on a Swedish clavichord, 6 harpsichords and spinets, 39 fortepianos and upright pianos, and 38 square pianos, together with speaking lengths, gauge numbers where they exist, and calculated tensions. These tensions are presented in graph form, with a description of the benefits to be gained from studying and comparing stringing patterns in this way. 48 further tables give more diameter measurements, and record many more gauge number markings, for comparison with the principal tables. A final section gives all the information necessary to calculate diameters and tensions of plain, open-spun and close-spun strings, with blank graph sheets to photocopy as required.

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Hardcover: 592 pages.
Publisher: Indiana University Press; Har/Com edition
Language: English

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Publisher: Indiana University Press (1980)
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Despite the revival of interest in the harpsichord during the last thirty years, there have been few books describing the general history of the instrument. Such pioneering works as those by Raymond Russell (The Harpsichord and Clavichord [London: Faber and Faber, 1959; New York: W. W. Norton, 1973]), and Frank Hubbard (Three Centuries of Harpsichord Making [Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974]) have both been superseded in many respects by the recent work of specialist authors. The amount and depth of specialization we have seen during the last thirty years in this area...

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Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc
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Unknown Binding: pages.
Publisher: W. Dowd; Rev edition
Language: English

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Publisher: N.E. Michel
Language: English

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Paperback: 164 pages.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Language: English

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During the four decades since the publication of Frank Hubbard’s classic Three Centuries of Harpsichord Making (1965), with its masterly survey of the Italian, Flemish, French, German, and English schools, most further research has been directed toward the European continent. This volume of The Historical Harpsichord is intended to redress that imbalance. With close attention to technical detail, Darryl Martin examines the extant English harpsichords produced in the critical period of transition between the earlier seventeenth century, best known for virginal making, and the Georgian era in which harpsichord making was dominated by the London firms of Shudi and Kirckman. Jenny Nex and Lance Whitehead describe and place into context the oeuvre of Saxon-born Ferdinand Weber (1715-1784), one of the few Georgian makers who could stand on his own, albeit at some remove from London, in Dublin.

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: 328 pages.
Publisher: Edition Bochinsky
Language: German

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This is a single-volume reissue of the catalogues of keyboard and non-keyboard musical instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum. It covers all the musical instruments in the V&A's collection, reissued with additional entries covering three important recent acquisitions of keyboard instruments. Each instrument is fully described and illustrated and an updated bibliography and notes have been added for this edition. The V&A holds the National Collection of Musical Instruments, which was started in 1851 following the Great Exhibition. The instruments were collected as works of art, and among them are examples of early stringed, keyboard and wind instruments. This catalogue should be a useful resource for scholars and for anyone with a serious interest in the history of musical instruments. The pieces are fully documented, with detailed descriptions of makers, techniques and provenance.

Paperback: 224 pages.
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
Language: English

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Unknown Binding: 100 pages.
Publisher: F. Knuf (1989)
Language: English

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Unknown Binding: 214 pages.
Publisher: De Toorts (1984)
Language: Dutch

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Actas del I y II symposium Internacional "Diego Fernández" de música de tecla española en Vera-Mojácar 2000-2001

Hardcover: 259 pages.
Publisher: Instituto de estudios almerienses (Diputación de Almería)
Language: Spanish

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Paperback: 313 pages.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English

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Black-and-white photos of some of the early keyboard instruments housed in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Captions accompanying photos give approximate age and maker, if known, of the instruments. This book is the predecessor to the full catalog of instruments, by the same author, made available in 1967 by Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

Paperback: 30 pages.
Publisher: Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO)
Language: English

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Growing out of the authors' visits to 47 collections in 16 European countries, Early Keyboard Instruments in European Museums offers intimate glimpses and useful insights into a great variety of instruments and makes.

Hardcover: 308 pages.
Publisher: Indiana University Press (December 7, 2006)
Language: English

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Hardcover: 166 pages.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (April 2, 2001)
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Paperback: 166 pages.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (March 26, 2001)
Language: English

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Unknown Binding: 153 pages.
Publisher: The Holland Press (1960)
Language: English

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Hardcover: 128 pages.
Publisher: The National Trust
Language: English

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Hardcover: 128 pages.
Publisher: The National Trust
Language: English

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Paperback: pages.
Publisher: Edition Bochinsky
Language: English - German

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Publisher: Bold Strummer; Eng&Grmn edition (January 1980)
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Unknown Binding: 143 pages.
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co (1980)
Language: English

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Unknown Binding: pages.
Publisher: Bärenreiter (-Verlag); 2. ed edition (1968)
Language: English

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Harpsichord Regulating and Repairing first appeared in 1963, offering aid to owners and maintainers of real harpsichords of various makes and styles in a world that otherwise offered little reliable help. From his own experience, Frank Hubbard described in clear prose what might go wrong and how to fix it. For its current revision, new material was added to bring the book up to date for new instruments while preserving its value for the older instruments one might occasionally encounter.

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Publisher: Tuners Supply Inc.
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Harpsichord Regulating and Repairing first appeared in 1963, offering aid to owners and maintainers of real harpsichords of various makes and styles in a world that otherwise offered little reliable help. From his own experience, Frank Hubbard described in clear prose what might go wrong and how to fix it. For its current revision, new material was added to bring the book up to date for new instruments while preserving its value for the older instruments one might occasionally encounter.

Unknown Binding: 48 pages.
Publisher: Tuner's Supply Inc
Language: English

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Unknown Binding: 30 pages.
Publisher: Werkplaats voor clavecimbelbouw (1974)
Language: English

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Unknown Binding: 43 pages.
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press
Language: English

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Unknown Binding: 209 pages.
Publisher: N.E. Michel (1963)
Language: English

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Unknown Binding: 42 pages.
Publisher: Pageant Press; [1st ed.] edition (1954)
Language: English

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Extracted from the "Harpsichord manual"

Unknown Binding: 23 pages.
Publisher: Bar̈enreiter (1960)
Language: English

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Publisher: Smithsonian Institution (1960)
Language: English

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Originalmente publicado: Edinburgh University Press, 1971.

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Publisher: New York: Dover Publications; London: Constable, 1977.
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Originalmente publicado: Edinburgh University Press, 1971.

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Publisher: New York: Dover Publications; London: Constable, 1977.
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Keyboard Music Before 1700 begins with an overview of the development of keyboard music in Europe. Then, individual chapters by noted authorities in the field cover the key composers and repertory before 1700 in England, France, Germany and the Netherlands, Italy, and Spain and Portugal. The book concludes with a chapter on performance practice, which addresses current issues in the interpretation and revival of this music. About the Author. Alexander Silbiger is Professor of Music at Duke University. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Paperback: 400 pages.
Publisher: Routledge; 2 edition
Language: English

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Unknown Binding: 194 pages.
Publisher: Publicaciones de la Sociedad Española de Musicología
Language: Spanish

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Indica cómo aplicar y decorar reproducciones de papeles flamencos. The authors are distinguished scholars, researchers and restorers of antique instruments and furniture. This nicely presented 34-page booklet details the historical considerations and provides practical techniques for applying printed papers to instruments in the Flemish manner. Painted decorations (applied to the papers after they are glued to the instrument) are discussed, and a list of Latin mottoes occuring on Ruckers instruments included

Paperback: 40 pages.
Publisher: Mac & Me, 19 Mill Lane, Welwyn, Herts AL6 9EU
Language:

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A truely beautiful compendium of historical and technical information with many large and sumptuously produced color photos. This large format (9.5 x 13") hardcover volume contains close up details of decoration, and construction. Text examines stringing, construction, the ateliers during the golden age of harpsichord building, performers, composers and the modern revival. Single copies of this hard to find book are occasionally available. In French only. Shipping not included.

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Publisher: Paris, Expodif Editions, 1996
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A truely beautiful compendium of historical and technical information with many large and sumptuously produced color photos. This large format (9.5 x 13") hardcover volume contains close up details of decoration, and construction. Text examines stringing, construction, the ateliers during the golden age of harpsichord building, performers, composers and the modern revival. Single copies of this hard to find book are occasionally available. In French only. Shipping not included.

Hardcover: 263 pages.
Publisher: Editions Vecteurs (1990)
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Paperback: 734 pages.
Publisher: Edition Bochinsky
Language: German

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The third edition of Donald Boalch's Makers of the Harpsichord and Clavichord, 1440-1840 is a thorough revision of the second edition published in 1974. Part I contains biographical details of all known makers, including some 500 not listed previously, and updated entries for more than 400 makers appearing in the second edition. Enlarged (and in some cases extended) descriptions on more than 2,000 surviving instruments by the makers are consigned to Part II, and the whole is complemented by a number of tables, a geographical and chronological conspectus of makers, and a new Index of Technological Terms in seven languages by Dr Andreas H Roth.

Hardcover: 824 pages.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 3 edition (December 1, 1995)
Language: English

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John Barnes fue durante muchos años conservador de la Colección Russell en Edimburgo. El libro indica cómo construir una copia de una espineta del S.XVIII por Keene y Brackley. John Barnes was a harpsichord maker, restorer and collector and formerly Curator of the Russell Collection. This booklet provides guidance for woodworkers who have not previously attempted to build a keyboard instrument and is comprehensive enough to be of value to anyone who is making early keyboard instruments. It is illustrated by 24 line drawings showing techniques for making soundboards, bentsides, keyboards, jacks and tuning pins, and it covers methods of stringing and quilling.

Paperback: 56 pages.
Publisher: Anr (Mac and Me, Welwyn, England, 1985)
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Hardcover: 256 pages.
Publisher: David & Charles (November 1981)
Language: English

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Publisher: Scribner (January 2000)
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Unknown Binding: 167 pages.
Publisher: Atheneum
Language: English

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Un manual práctico sobre acabados pintados antiguos, con especial aplicación al clavecín. The subjects discussed in this booklet include: historical materials and styles; pigments, oils and varnishes; mixing and matching colors; paint systems and layer structures; polishing with abrasives and also the techniques used in marbling. Although intended as a practical manual, emphasis is laid not only on how to paint, but also on why certain materials or techniques are used. The revision takes account of materials that can be bought today and a chapter has been added on textured finishes to complement the one on marbling.

paperback: 90 pages.
Publisher: Mac & Me, 19 Mill Lane, Welwyn, Herts AL6 9EU
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Un manual sobre el arte de dorar al óleo y al agua. The book starts with sections on goldbeating and various types of metal leaf. It continues with a description of the tools used by gilders, and an explanation of how to make and apply gesso. The main part of the book contains detailed instructions for handling loose and transferred leaf as well as the tchniques of both oil gilding, and burnished and mat gilding. The last chapters cover such subjects as lettering, the transfer of designs, the arrangement of bands on harpsichord casas, the use of more than one color of gold, metal powders, schlag and glazes.

paperback: 80 pages.
Publisher: Mac & Me Ltd. 19 Mill Lane, Welwyn, Herts AL6 9EU
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Un manual sobre el arte de dorar al óleo y al agua. The book starts with sections on goldbeating and various types of metal leaf. It continues with a description of the tools used by gilders, and an explanation of how to make and apply gesso. The main part of the book contains detailed instructions for handling loose and transferred leaf as well as the tchniques of both oil gilding, and burnished and mat gilding. The last chapters cover such subjects as lettering, the transfer of designs, the arrangement of bands on harpsichord casas, the use of more than one color of gold, metal powders, schlag and glazes.

Paperback: 74 pages.
Publisher: Archetype Publications
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Publisher: Edition Bochinsky
Language: German

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Publisher: American Musical Instrument Society (1979)
Language: English

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Publisher: Palma: Universitat de les Illes Balears, 1989.
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The name of Ruckers is as important to early keyboard instruments as Stradivarius is to strings. This book describes in close detail the art and technique of the Ruckers family, who produced harpsichords and virginals throughout a period of over 100 years. Dr O’Brien provides detailed information about the construction and decoration of Ruckers harpsichords and virginals, as well as the numbering, pitch, stringing, and the determination of the original state of their instruments. Like Stradivarius violins, Ruckers instruments were later altered, and the nature and musical significance of these alterations are discussed, as is the influence of the Ruckers style on later building practice. The instruments in their original and altered states are considered in relation to the music of the time and to contemporary performance practice. The text is richly illustrated with diagrams and pictures of original instruments, and with plan-view photographs reproduced at a scale of 1:10. The book also contains a partially illustrated catalogue of authentic and fake instruments, followed by extensive appendices.

Hardcover: 368 pages.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

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The name of Ruckers is as important to early keyboard instruments as Stradivarius is to strings. This book describes in close detail the art and technique of the Ruckers family, who produced harpsichords and virginals throughout a period of over 100 years. Dr O’Brien provides detailed information about the construction and decoration of Ruckers harpsichords and virginals, as well as the numbering, pitch, stringing, and the determination of the original state of their instruments. Like Stradivarius violins, Ruckers instruments were later altered, and the nature and musical significance of these alterations are discussed, as is the influence of the Ruckers style on later building practice. The instruments in their original and altered states are considered in relation to the music of the time and to contemporary performance practice. The text is richly illustrated with diagrams and pictures of original instruments, and with plan-view photographs reproduced at a scale of 1:10. The book also contains a partially illustrated catalogue of authentic and fake instruments, followed by extensive appendices.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

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Rodney Myrvaagnes is a harpsichord maker

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Publisher: Myrvaagnes (1978)
Language: English

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Hardcover: 127 pages.
Publisher: October House; Reprint edition
Language: English

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Publisher: W.C. Parsons (1987)
Language: English

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Unknown Binding: 73 pages.
Publisher: Americole (1979)
Language: English

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A handbook for tuning harpsichords and fortepianos, with tuning techniques and tables of fifteen historical temperaments. While one can purchase electronic tuning aids that provide most of the useful temperaments in this book, one does, by learning to set them by ear, open up a vast field of possibilities. Good harpsichords simply sound best when tuned in a favorable temperament and equal temperament ain't it.

Unknown Binding: 36 pages.
Publisher: Sunbury Press (1981)
Language: English

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The Harpsichord and Clavichord, An Encyclopedia includes articles on this family of instruments, including famous players, composers, instruments builders, the construction of the instruments, and related terminology. It is the first complete reference on this important family of keyboard instruments. The contributors include major scholars of music and musical instrument history from around the world. It completes the three-volume Encyclopedia of Keyboard Intsruments. About the Author Robert Palmieri is the series editor for the Encylopedia of Keyboard Instruments. He has written widely on the piano and keyboards.

Hardcover: 576 pages.
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (December 19, 2006)
Language: English

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Unknown Binding: 208 pages.
Publisher: W. W. Norton; 2d ed., rev edition
Language: English

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Unknown Binding: 208 pages.
Publisher: Faber
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Paperback: 63 pages.
Publisher: Alfred Publishing Co., Inc. (1968)
Language: English

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Hardcover: 16 pages.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (January 1980)
Language: English

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Kottick presents technical information in an accessible, but entertaining, way: the forms and styles of harpsichords, advice on purchasing decisions, maintenance techniques (such as voicing, regulating, and changing strings, tongues, plectra, springs, and dampers), aids in troubleshooting common problems, and detailed instructions on tuning and temperment. As builder of some thirty keyboard instruments, Kottick is well qualified to speak on the subject.

Hardcover: 180 pages.
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press; Rev edition (October 26, 1992)
Language: English

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Unknown Binding: 92 pages.
Publisher: Jerona Music (1982)
Language: English

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The contents of the first volume of the series include a posthumous publication of Frank Hubbard's, a detailed study of the surviving instruments from the famous Blanchet workshop in 18th-century Paris by his life-long friend and sometime partner, William Dowd (Cambridge, MA), and a pioneering investigation by Christopher Page (New College, Oxford), into the medieval origins of the harpsichord.

Hardcover: 137 pages.
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Language: English

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One of the central mysteries of the craft of harpsichord-making involves the choice of stringing material. Years of research by a number of distinguished scientists under the guidance of senior authors, Jay Scott Odell, Chief Conservator, and Martha Goodway, Metallurgist, of the Smithsonian Institution have resulted in a pioneering study of the metallurgy of 17th-and 18th-century music wire. Drawing on the scientific resources and expertise of a number of leading institutions, these researchers have been able to analyze samples of antique stringing material, often of only microscopic size. Their conclusions add significantly to our understanding and appreciation of the tonal qualities of the historical harpsichord and will further the efforts of today's instrument makers to recreate them.

Hardcover: 155 pages.
Publisher: Pendragon Press
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The third volume in The Historical Harpsichord-Essays in Honor of Frank Hubbard series contains two studies of major importance. The name Bartolomeo Cristofori is immediately identified with the invention of the pianoforte, a harpsichord with a hammer action that can play loudly and softly. Indeed, Cristofori was an innovative builder of harpsichords of various types, as is fully described and illustrated in Bartolomeo Cristofori as Harpsichord Maker by Dr. Hubert Henkel, of the Deutsche Museum in Munich. He was formerly Director of the Musical Instrument Museum of the University of Leipzig, which contains a wealth of Cristofori instruments. Denzil Wraight's essay, The Identification and Authentication of Italian Stringed Keyboard Instruments, discusses methods by which unsigned harpsichords, as well as those with false inscriptions, can be authoritatively ascribed to known makers. Moulding profiles printed on acetate sheets will be provided for illustrative overlay comparisons.

Hardcover: 170 pages.
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Language:

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A Monograph Series in Honor of Frank Hubbard. Volume IV of The Historical Harpsichord contains two monographs of major importance, Harpsichord Decoration: A Conspectus by Sheridan Germann, and A Fable Deconstructed: The 1770 Taskin at Yale by Richard Rephann. Sheridan Germann, an acclaimed scholar and practitioner in the field of harpsichord decoration, offers the first comprehensive illustrated conspectus of thesubject. In Part I Ms. Germann tells us that the styles of the decoration of harpsichords (and spinets, virginals and clavichords) tended to follow contemporary furniture fashions, but usually lagged conservatively behind the prevailing fashions. Because, unlike most furniture, the instruments are often dated, they provide rare documentation of how long these styles remained in common use. This survey follows chronologically the five major regional traditions of keyboard instrument decoration-Italian, Flemish, French, German and English-but with emphasis on the international changes in taste on which each region produced its own variations. In Part II, Richard Rephann of the Yale Musical Instrument Collection describes his research into the uniquely experimental construction of the 1770 Pascal Taskin harpsichord. This essay forms a pendant to William Dowd's in Vol. I that treats the surviving instruments of the Blanchet-Taskin workshop up to 1770. The romantic provenance of the 1770 Taskin, concocted by the antique trade to enhance the instrument's market value, is revealed as a fable

Hardcover: 249 pages.
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Language: English

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Unknown Binding: 14 pages.
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Hardcover: 255 pages.
Publisher: October House, Inc.
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Publisher: October House Inc.
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Unknown Binding: 3 pages.
Publisher: Salvatore Landi (1910)
Language: English

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Hardcover: 80 pages.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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Paperback: 54 pages.
Publisher: Bold Strummer Ltd (December 1986)
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Here are the traditions of harpsichord making as they might have been taught to young apprentices in five countries where the craft once flourished: Italy, Flanders, France, England, and Germany. The period covered ranges from approximately 1500, when concrete data became available, to 1800, after which the nature of the instrument is no longer of musicological significance. The author's aim is to "give enough information to make it possible for builders of harpsichords to base their work on certain knowledge of the designs and methods of earlier makers; to guide players of the harpsichord in their search for appropriate instruments, dispositions, and registrations in recreating the music of the past; and to serve as a useful body of information for historians and editors of early keyboard music." A chapter each is devoted to the five most important schools of harpsichord making. Over forty plates illustrate the most typical harpsichords of each country. Each set of drawings includes a plan drawn to scale, the interior of the instrument, and interesting details of action and construction. These are supplemented by reproductions of illustrations taken from early sources. The appendixes contain texts of relevant documents, including inventories of the shops of some prominent French makers and contemporary descriptions of instruments. Mr. Hubbard has drawn material from contemporary descriptions of instruments and the mechanical arts such as those found in encyclopedias, technical treatises, books on music theory, and manuals for craftsmen. In addition he has examined hundreds of instruments in European and American collections. His exceptional position as an internationally known harpsichord maker as well as a student of harpsichord history allows him to discuss technical as well as historical matters that would be outside the competence of a musicologist.

Hardcover: 472 pages.
Publisher: Harvard University Press (January 1, 1965)
Language: English

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The Treatise on Harpsichord Tuning (1643/50) was the first French document to discuss keyboard performance practice in any detail. Jean Denis was both a harpsichord builder of renown and the organist of a prominent Parisian church, and he thus qualifies as an authority worthy of careful study. The treatise addresses numerous matters of interest to both scholars and performers, including temperament, ornamentation, fugue, and the use of the organ in liturgical practice. Also included in the treatise are a keyboard prelude designed to reveal errors in tuning and two delightful anecdotes attesting to the power of music. The forthright character of Denis's writing lends a unique and distinctly enjoyable tone to the work. Vincent Panetta's edition of Denis's treatise includes a generously annotated English translation of the original, along with an extensive Introduction that places Denis and his treatise in a historical context.

Paperback: 136 pages.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (April 19, 1987)
Language: English

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Unknown Binding: 435 pages.
Publisher: Northern Michigan University Press (1977)
Language: English

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This absolutely enormous book is one of the classics on musical temperament; for some reason most such books are out of print and hard to get hold of, and this is no exception. The title has got cut off in the Amazon entry - the full title is: "Tuning: Containing the Perfection of Eighteenth-Century Temperament, the Lost Art of Nineteenth-Century Temperment and the Science of Equal Temperment, Complete with Instructions for Aural and Electronic Tuning." It is a mixture of history of tunings and temperaments, and explicit tuning instructions for various temperaments. An interesting thread running through the book is a detailed argument to the effect that equal temperament was not commonplace until the twentieth century. If you're interested in this book, you might want to get hold of the recordings by Enid Katahn, "Six degrees of Tonality" and "Beethoven in the Temperaments." The former consists of recordings of a number of pieces from different periods of musical history, played on a piano tuned by Edward Foote in temperaments appropriate to the era. Also included are three different takes of the Mozart Fantasie Kv.397 in meantone, "Prelleur" temperament and equal temperament. Other books you might want to check out are Barbour's "Tuning and Temperament" and Dominique Devie's "Le Tempérament Musical."

Hardcover: 821 pages.
Publisher: Michigan State Univ Pr
Language: English

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Unknown Binding: 47 pages.
Publisher: Edition Bochinsky
Language: German

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Paperback: 69 pages.
Publisher: Edition Bochinsky
Language: German

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Unknown Binding: 93 pages.
Publisher: Coach House Press (1968)
Language: English