About the Harpsichord
What a harpsichord sounds like
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bpl/hpsi.html
Real samples of historic instruments, mp3 demo downloads with description
and photographs. Featuring French, Flemish, English and Italian harpsichords,
English spinets and a reconstructed German Lautenwerck,- samples taken from
the Andreas Beurmann Collection of Musical Instruments in MKG-Hamburg.
http://www.realsamples.net/ Click on ‘Edition Beurmann’
General Information Sources
Harpsichord books and links at geometry.net
http://www.geometry.net/detail/basic_h/harpsichord_instruments.html
HPSCHD-L - email discussion list devoted to early stringed keyboard instruments, hosted by the University at Albany, USA
http://www.albany.edu/hpschd-l/
Harpsichord Services of London links page
http://www.harpsichord.services.btinternet.co.uk/links.html
The Hot Harpsichord Centre - Barbara Cadranel
http://www.geocities.com/hothpschd/questionsandanswers.html
Big Duck's Harpsichord Miscellany at baroque-music.com
http://www.bigduck.com/harp1.html
Baroque Keyboard Instruments - www.baroque-music.com
http://baroque-music.com/frames/info/hc.shtml#hc
Harpsichord Glossary - Hubbard Harpsichords - click on the glossary link at top right
http://www.hubharp.com
Carey Beebe - an extensive harpsichord resource
http://www.hpschd.nu/
A curiosity- A working Harpsichord built from Lego!
http://www.henrylim.org/Harpsichord.html
History and Styles
History of the Harpsichord - a paper by Janet Pierce
http://cfaonline.asu.edu/haefer/classes/564/564.papers/pierceharpsichord.html
The history of Harpsichords and Pianos have a lot in common
http://www.uk-piano.org/history/history.html
‘The English Spinet, the Schools of Keene & Hitchcock’
Doctoral Research Thesis by Peter Mole, two complete volumes downloadable from
http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/3274
Surviving Harpsichords built or rebuilt in France 17th & 18th century - by Dean Anderson, with many photo links
http://harpsichordphoto.org/french
Ruckers - Couchet Harpsichords - Vleeshuis Museum - Antwerp
http://web.archive.org/web/20060819235656/museum.antwerpen.be/vleeshuis/collectie_06_eng.html
Mechanisms
Simple harpsichord mechanism:
English harpsichord action:
French harpsichord action:
Flemish harpsichord action:
Source: Ripin Ed et al, Early Keyboard Instruments - New Grove Musical Instruments Series, 1989, PAPERMAC
Reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan
