Announcing: the fifth issue of Sounding Board
January 2012 issue View/Download (9.1mb)
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CONTENTS of ISSUE NO. 5 'What is the future of Harpsichord Building?'
News and Letters
Repairing a Baldwin Electric Harpsichord by EDMUND HANDY
Closing the Theeuws circle by MALCOLM ROSE
Music for Four Hands by MASUMI YAMAMOTO
First Early Keyboard Conference in Edinburgh by ANDREW WOOLLEY
The perils of playing historical instruments by LAURA TIVENDALE
Where are all the young builders? asks SIMON NEAL
What's the future of instrument making? asks DAVID LAW
Copying historical instruments by ANDREW WOODERSON
Early Music Pioneers Archive
‘Sounding Board’ has been created to provide a channel for everyone with an interest in the Harpsichord to share their experiences, their ideas, and their knowledge. It gives everyone an opportunity to ask questions on a variety of topics including technique and repertoire, as well as on technical matters. Please keep sending in your contributions, large or small, serious or frivolous, the seemingly ordinary as well as any of an unusual nature. All contributions and comments welcome, please send to .
Announcing: the fourth issue of Sounding Board
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Announcing: the third issue of Sounding Board
November 2010 issue View/Download (1.2mb)
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Announcing: the second issue of Sounding Board
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Announcing: the first issue of Sounding Board
Guest Editor: Pamela Nash
January 2010 issue View/Download (4.6Mb PDF file)
In conjunction with the newly-launched British Harpsichord Society web site, in commemoration of the BHS's seventh anniversary.
Since its founding by William Vine in 2002, the British Harpsichord Society has been a key force in bringing the greater harpsichord community together. As far as anyone can tell, it is the only organisation of its kind anywhere in the world, and thanks to the lively interest of members and the dedicated work of a few core individuals, the BHS's international membership has grown to a number well in excess of 1,000 in October 2009.
Sterling work is being done to ensure the healthy future of the society, underpinned by regular meetings, web management, secretarial duties, co-ordination of Handel House events and exhaustive concert diary bulletins covering all corners of the UK. Thanks must go to the 'movers and shakers' in these areas: Edna Lewis, Jane Clark, Penelope Cave, Claire Randall, Katharine May, Michael Ackerman, William Mitchell, William Vine, Tony Darwen and Robin Bigwood. I would also like to extend a retrospective thanks to John Erskine who recently retired.
The circulation of harpsichord news and views is high on the agenda and the newsletter is re-emerging as Sounding Board, available as a download.
As first guest editor, I have pleasure in launching the first issue featuring items on instrument building and new harpsichord compositions along with some comment from me on contemporary duo harpsichords.
I also invite you now to send in contributions for the next issue and warmly encourage pieces on all aspects of harpsichord-alia: articles, event previews, festival reports, harpsichord photographs, maintenance advice, or just a paragraph or two on any harpsichord topic. If you feel able to offer a review of a recent publication or edition, this would also be very welcome and perhaps useful for those of us who teach as well as play.
Our next guest editor is William Mitchell, but send all your contributions to me at:
Members may remember our appeal for ideas in re-naming the newsletter, and congratulations go to Helen France (UK) for her winning title. Thanks are due for the other 42 suggestions which came in from the UK, Ireland, France, Belgium, Sweden and Portugal, and here are some of the contenders:
Cembalo, The Plectrum, Hxpsxchxd, Wired, Hitchpin, The Rose, Prelude, Continuo, 'TWANG' - and a banale one from me: The Buff Stops Here.
Here's to the next seven years!
PN
