Buying & Choosing – UK Makers – Hire – Second Hand – International Sources – Building a Harpsichord – Technical Drawings – International Links to Makers
Buying and Choosing
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
UK Makers
Peter Barnes (retired from making) – http://www.peterbarnesharpsichords.com/
Colin Booth (retired from making) – http://www.colinbooth.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
Michael Johnson (retired from making) – http://www.michaeljohnsonharpsichords.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/
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
Bexley Harpsichords Ltd – http://www.woodersonharpsichords.co.uk
Robert Deegan – http://www.deeganharpsichords.com/services_hire.html
London Harpsichords- http://londonharpsichords.co.uk/category/hire/
Simon Neal – http://www.simonneal.org.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.
Zuckerman Harpsichords- Kits https://zhi.net/
Early Music Shop, various instruments in kit form.
https://earlymusicshop.com/
‘Making a Spinet by Traditional Methods’ John Barnes, pp53 Published by
Mac & Me Ltd, Welwyn, Herts, AL6 9EU
Harpsichord-making woods for sale: http://www.claviantica.com/Wood_files/Wood.htm
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/
Marc Vogel, supplies tuners, parts, strings, tools etc https://www.vogel-scheer.de/
Bespoke Transport covers for Harpsichords and other keyboard instruments Harpsichord transport covers made to measure – David Gerrard – Musician and Instrument Maker – Harpsichord | Clavichord | Early Keyboards
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
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
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
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
Harpsichord Makers established in France- http://www.clavecin-en-france.org/spip.php?article20
The Paris Workshop- France http://www.theparisworkshop.com
Denzil Wraight, Maker Italian Keyboard Instruments – Germany http://www.denzilwraight.com
Brighenti Harpsichords, Parma – Italy https://www.brighenti-harpsichords.com/
Sebastiano Calì, Catania- Sicily http://www.sebastianocali.com/
Carey Beebe – maker and technician- Australia http://www.hpschd.nu/
Craig Tomlinson, Maker, West Vancouver B.C.- Canada http://www.tomlinsonharpsichords.com
Maker Keyboard Instruments – USA http://www.lautenwerk.com/