Buying & Choosing – UK Makers – Hire – Second Hand – International Sources – Building a Harpsichord – Technical Drawings – International Links to Makers
Buying and Choosing
Buying a Harpsichord by Trevor Pinnock
Part 1 – http://www.jackpeters.com/pinnock1.htm
Part 2 – http://www.jackpeters.com/pinnock2.htm
‘Buyers Guide’ by harpsichordist Sophie Yates ( NB, last updated 2009)
http://www.thetutorpages.com/tutor-article/harpsichord/a-buyers-guide-to-british-harpsichord-makers/1599
Hints for Choosing a Harpsichord by Larry Palmer – http://www.jackpeters.com/choosing.htm
UK Makers
Peter Barnes – http://www.peterbarnesharpsichords.com/
Colin Booth – http://www.colinbooth.co.uk/
Guill Clark – https://peckhamharpsichords.co.uk/
Robert Deegan – http://www.deeganharpsichords.com
Dolmetsch – http://www.dolmetsch.com/ourharpsichords.htm
Daniel Flew – www.danielflewharpsichords.co.uk
Andrew Garlick – https://www.andrewgarlickharpsichords.co.uk/
Alan Gotto – http://www.dsn.co.uk/agotto
William Hendry – whendry@tiscali.co.uk
Michael Johnson – http://www.michaeljohnsonharpsichords.co.uk
Darryl Martin – http://www.darryl-martin.co.uk
William Mitchell – http://www.harpsichords.co.uk
Robert Morley – http://www.morleypianos.com
The Music Room Workshop – http://www.musicroomworkshop.co.uk
Stephen Robinson Spinets – http://www.robinsonspinets.co.uk/
Malcolm Rose – http://www.malcolm-rose.com
Huw Saunders – http://www.harpsichordmaker.co.uk
Andrew Wooderson – http://www.woodersonharpsichords.co.uk
The Future – Recruiting and training the next generation of harpsichord, clavichord and fortepiano technicians and makers, is now reaching crisis point. A document has been compiled to encourage and help anyone who might be considering a future career in this field. It is a pdf file which also includes links to a number of relevant websites. To open please click on Guide-to-training-resources
Hire
Alba Musick – http://www.albamusick.co.uk/instrument_hire.htm
Bexley Harpsichords Ltd – http://www.woodersonharpsichords.co.uk
Cambridge Harpsichords http://www.cambridge-baroque-labs.com/
Colin Booth – http://www.colinbooth.co.uk/rentals.html
Robert Deegan – http://www.deeganharpsichords.com/services_hire.html
London Harpsichords- http://londonharpsichords.co.uk/category/hire/
Simon Neal – http://www.simonneal.org.uk
Malcolm Rose – http://www.malcolm-rose.com
William Hendry – whendry@tiscali.co.uk
Second Hand
British Harpsichord Society – Sale & Wanted
Peter Barnes – http://www.peterbarnesharpsichords.com/
Early Music Shop – http://www.earlymusicshop.com/uia/uiastart.html
Keyboard Instruments from Laurie Leigh Antiques, Stow-in-the-Wold
http://www.laurieleighantiques.com/pages/keyboardinstruments.html
Musical Instrument Sales -Harpsichords, Spinets
http://www.musicalinstrumentsales.co.uk/harpscord.html
The Music Room Workshop – http://www.musicroomworkshop.co.uk
Andrew Wooderson – http://www.woodersonharpsichords.co.uk
International Sources
Harpsichord Clearing House – http://www.harpsichord.com
World Wide Keyboard Bank – http://wwkbank.harpsichord.be
Instruments available in Australia – http://www.hpschd.nu/ilist.html
For further information about second-hand instruments abroad, contact the relevant societies listed below under ‘International Links’
Building a Harpsichord
This section lists suppliers of Harpsichords in Kit form, accounts of Building harpsichords from scratch, availability of Technical drawings of historic instruments & sources of various materials and accessories.
Hubbard Harpsichords in Kit form. http://www.hubharp.com/kits/kits.htm
Also plans of historic instruments
Zuckerman Harpsichords- Kits http://zhi.net/instr/index2.shtml
Early Music Shop, various instruments in kit form.
http://www.earlymusicshop.com/Browse.aspx/en-GB/store25_arrangement42_format119/1/
‘Making a Spinet by Traditional Methods’ John Barnes, pp53 Published by
Mac & Me Ltd, Welwyn, Herts, AL6 9EU
Detailed Account of building an Italian Virginals from scratch, http://www.earlykeyboards.eu/blue/virginal/
Harpsichord-making woods for sale: http://www.claviantica.com/Wood_files/Wood.htm
Parchment roses http://www.sarahbeare.com/parchment-roses
Hand-made Ruckers papers in a variety of styles http://www.claviantica.com/Ruckers_papers.htm
Harpsichord papers ‘Les Papiers de Bussy‘ https://georgesfarias.wixsite.com/at-iconesetfresques/cathalogue-2021
Wooden jacks for Zuckerman, Hubbard etc http://www.harpsichordjacks.net/
Supplies and Parts for historical keyboard instruments, flap hinges, tuning pins, wound strings,
spare strings, hooks etc www.hksupplies.it
Marc Vogel, supplies tuners, parts, strings, tools etc https://www.vogel-scheer.de/
‘The Instrument Workshop’ offers supplies, parts, tools and written instructions for owners and builders of harpsichords and other similar instruments. http://www.fortepiano.com/
Suppliers of high quality bone, ancient mammoth ivory and pre-ban ivory key tops suitable for harpsichords.
See http://www.guitarpartsandmore.com/?nav=materials
Suppliers of bone key tops –www.sfinternational.co.in
Traditional Brassware for Early Keyboard Instruments, David Law
http://www.traditional-brassware.co.uk/
Harpsichord Painter, examples of various styles & designs, http://www.elisabettalanzoni.com/
Three useful booklets by Peter & Ann Mactaggart, pub. Mac & Me Ltd. Welwyn, Herts, AL6 9EU
Laying & Decorating Flemish Papers.
Painting & Marbling Harpsichord Cases.
Practical Gilding. Re-prints available from http://www.hpschd.nu/b/biblio.html
Latin Mottos, http://www.bigduck.com/mottos.html
Technical Drawings
Plans of Harpsichords & Virginals from ‘The Instrument Workshop’.
http://www.fortepiano.com/plans.htm
Technical Drawings of Musical Instruments in Public Collections of the World http://network.icom.museum/cimcim/resources/musical-instruments-technical-drawings-register/
List of drawings published by the 26 museums and collections which have participated in the project to microfilm technical drawings of musical instruments, organised by Hague Gemeentemuseum, Netherlands, http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/am/iwd.html
Details of the Technical Drawings of Historic Keyboard Instruments that are available from the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
PDF Download (14kb – small)
‘Museum’ type plans of various historic instruments
https://www.vogel-scheer.de/de/info/plaene.html
Plans and photographs of several instruments available from Hubbard Harpsichords; including Ruckers 1640, Johanne de Perticus 1681 & 1684, R.K.Lee’s drawing of Harpsichord/Clavicytherium 1752, Blanchet-double 1765, J.P.Bull of Antwerp-double 1778 and Hemsch double 1756 http://www.hubharp.com/parts.htm
Technical Drawings of Harpsichords by Andreas Ruckers, Antwerp 1644 and by Ioannes Daniel Dulcken, Antwerp 1747 obtainable from the Museum Vleeshuis, Antwerp. http://www.ruckersgenootschap.be/INS.php
Full-scale drawings of a ‘French’ Ruckers Harpsichord, a Ruckers spinet virginal, a Venetian Polygonal virginal c1565, & a Neapolitan single-manual harpsichord c.1630, together with appropriate stands and decorative schemes.
http://www.claviantica.com/Drawing_files/Drawings.htm
A Technical drawing of the single-manual harpsichord built in Venice by Alessandro Trasuntino and dated 1531, can be purchased from the Museum of Music at the Royal College of Music in London. Please contact museum@rcm.ac.uk or 0207 591 4842
St. Cecilia’s Hall Edinburgh Full size technical drawings of keyboard Instruments
https://friendsofstceciliashallmuseum3.weebly.com/keyboard-drawings.html
Links to International Makers
List of European Makers http://www.hpschd.nu/l/links-12.html
List of non-European makers http://www.hpschd.nu/l/links-11.html
List of Builders- Worldwide http://intranet.arc.miami.edu/rjohn/KeyboardLinks.htm
Atelier Arpeggio, Harpsichord Workshop- Belgium http://www.atelierarpeggio.be/
Harpsichord Makers established in France- http://www.clavecin-en-france.org/spip.php?article20
Le Clavecin J-P Rouaud. Makers- France http://site.voila.fr/clavecins-rouaud/index.jhtml
The Paris Workshop- France http://www.theparisworkshop.com
Denzil Wraight, Maker Italian Keyboard Instruments – Germany http://www.denzilwraight.com
Maker Keyboard Instruments – Italy http://www.williamhorn.it/clavicembali/en/presentation
Brighenti Harpsichords, Parma – Italy http://www.brighenti-harpsichords.com/en/index.html
Sebastiano Calì, Catania- Sicily http://www.sebastianocali.com/
Carey Beebe – maker and technician- Australia http://www.hpschd.nu/
Claviers Baroques – builders and technicians – Canada http://www.claviersbaroques.com/index.html
Craig Tomlinson, Maker, West Vancouver B.C.- Canada http://www.tomlinsonharpsichords.com
Maker Keyboard Instruments – USA http://www.lautenwerk.com/