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Announcing: the second issue of Sounding Board
June 2010 issue View/Download (642kb)
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CONTENTS
Editorial by our Guest Editor - WILLIAM MITCHELL
Historical Damping -Paul Y. Irvin
French Harpsichord maker Vincent Tiabut -Stefan Claessens
Woodcuts and Paintings -Arnold den Teuling
The Harpsichord in Brazil -Oliver Seeger
Kirkman Harpsichord attack -Peter Mole
And finally, a special…
Birthday Cake -Catherine Attwood
‘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 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
