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	Harpsichord
		Originally, upon thinking about the potentials of making a LEGO musical instrument, I had hoped to reproduce a piano, but ditched the idea due to the enormous tension involved (40,000 lbs.)--there's a reason why pianos have steel frames.
		Its ancestor, the harpsichord, seemed more practically possible--the key/jack workings are simple levers, the strings are plucked, it's smaller, and it maintains less tension.
		Coincidentally, I was in my Bach phase anyways.
	www.henrylim.org /Harpsichord.html (1448 words)

	The LUTE-HARPSICHORD: A Forgotten Instrument
		Over a period of some three centuries there are plenty of references to gut-stringed instruments that resemble the harpsichord and imitate the delicate soft timbre of the lute (including its lower-sounding variants, the theorbo and chitarrone or archlute) or the harp, but little concrete information.
		While historical references indicate differing approaches to design, there is general agreement that whereas harpsichords are designed to be strung in metal, the use of gut strings is of primary importance in a lute-harpsichord.
		Harpsichords normally have one dedicated jack per string.
	www.baroquemusic.org /barluthp.html (1413 words)

	Harpsichord by Andreas Ruckers, Antwerp, 1643, at the National Music Museum
		The plain painted surfaces of harpsichords like the 1643 Ruckers were deemed insufficiently ornate for the pseudo-historical fantasies of 19th-century interior decoration, so its exterior surfaces and the area around the keyboard were redecorated with elaborate borders, vignettes, and garlands on a gold ground.
		Now that the NMM's single-manual harpsichord by Andreas Ruckers, 1607 has been joined by the two-manual instrument made by the same maker in 1643, the NMM is one of only a handful of places in the world—the only place outside of Europe—to have an example of both kinds.
		Ruckers harpsichords, while ideally suited to the music of their own time and region, were small by later standards, and the transposing keyboards of the two-manual instruments became obsolete not long after this model ceased to be made in the mid-1640s.
	www.usd.edu /smm/Keyboards/RuckersHarpsichord10000/Ruckers1643.html (868 words)

	Harpsichord playing and teaching
		Interest in harpsichord playing is further fostered through organizations such as Early Music Vancouver and the Toronto Centre for Early Music as well as events such as the Concours international de clavecin, which was held in Montreal in 1997 and 1999, and festivals.
		In 2001 she was coordinator of Harpsichord Then and Now/Le Clavecin d'hier et d'aujourd'hui festival at Bishop's University.
		Noted harpsichord recitalist and scholar Erich Schwandt retired from teaching at the University of Victoria.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1SEC836147 (1047 words)

	Harpsichord - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A harpsichord is the general term for a family of European keyboard instruments, including the large instrument nowadays called a harpsichord, but also the smaller virginals, the muselar virginals and the spinet.
		The harpsichord family is thought to have originated when a keyboard was affixed to the end of a psaltery, providing a mechanical means to pluck the strings.
		The 18th century French harpsichord is often considered one of the pinnacles of harpsichord design, and it is widely adopted as a model for the construction of modern instruments.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harpsichord (2447 words)

	Harpsichord playing and teaching
		In 1791 a single-manual harpsichord built by Kirkman of London was auctioned at Quebec City, and two years later Glackemeyer advertised a used instrument.
		The instrument was inaugurated 2 Feb 1932 in a Canadian debut performance by Frances Duncan Barwick (b Kalamazoo, Mich, 30 Jan 1909, d Ottawa 19 Nov 1984), a pupil of Marguerite Delcourt in Paris and the Dolmetsches in England.
		The first to play harpsichord (rather than piano) continuo for the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir's Bach performances during the 1940s, Kraus was for many years Canada's best-known and most active harpsichordist.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1SEC836139 (511 words)

	History of the Harpsichord
		Although the piano and harpsichord are both zithers in the chordophone family with keys, the method of producing sound from the strings and the construction of each instrument is vastly different.
		The harpsichords of eighteenth century France were mainly based on the model set by the Ruckers family from the previous century with some important differences and improvements.
		Two Blanchet harpsichords that have been well documented are a double harpsichord from c1715 that bears the NB rose insignia, and a double that is dated, 1730 and bears the insignia of Francois Etienne Blanchet.
	cfaonline.asu.edu /haefer/classes/564/564.papers/pierceharpsichord.html (6699 words)

	BACH The Harpsichord Concertos - An Inktroduction - INKPOT
		BACH The Harpsichord Concertos - An Inktroduction - INKPOT
		Having said that, the harpsichord's tone is very different from the piano - not surprisingly, its effect is not unlike that of a guitar, capable of great intensity yet also of quite meditation.
		There is the elegant humour of BWV 1055, and there is the serious nobility of BWV 1056, where the harpsichord quietly meditates on one of Bach's most divine melodies in the slow movement, while the accompanying strings gently pizzicato their way to aural heaven.
	inkpot.com /classical/bachhpdc.html (874 words)

	Harpsichord Primer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The harpsichord is that family of keyboard instruments which are plucked, not struck, by the key mechanism.
		It has served as the major string keyboard instrument for substantially longer than its descendant the piano, and still at the end of the millenium is much in use, both in early music performance and in various new applications.
		The history of the harpsichord is somewhat odd in that it contains a dramatic hiatus: harpsichord making simply died in the nineteenth century (a victim, some will argue, of Romanticism) and was only revived again in the twentieth.
	www.bigduck.com /primer.html (197 words)

	The Harpsichord
		On the other hand, though its duration of sound is considerably shorter, it does not have to be evanescent, and with a good instrument and a proper touch it need not in the least sound dry, but on the contrary is capable of a splendid flow of warmth and brilliance.
		The mechanism of a harpsichord consists of keys each of which raises one or more jacks, according to the set or sets of strings on which a note is to be played.
		Arnold Dolmetsch once evolved a harpsichord action by-passing this inicial buzz in favour of a preternatural purity which was not characteristic at all: it was afterwards abandoned.
	www.lichtensteiger.de /harpsichord.html (561 words)

	Colonial Williamsburg Journal
		If harpsichord buyers are in short supply today, that was not the case in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, when harpsichord music, composers, and musicians were immensely popular in Europe.
		The harpsichord’s popularity was as bright as its sound except for an eclipse during the killjoy rule of Oliver Cromwell.
		Once the soundboard is done, keys are made, the harpsichord is strung, jacks are installed, and the stand and the lid are completed.
	www.history.org /Foundation/journal/Spring02/harpsichord.cfm (1855 words)

	GPO - Harpsichord Tutorial
		You might want to compose for the harpsichord, either as a solo instrument or as part of a chamber ensemble; or you might want to reconstruct early music for your own enjoyment.
		Of course the harpsichord preceded the piano; it held sway, in one form or another, for a good three centuries before the invention of the piano, which has been around for rather less time: certainly the modern piano with its iron frame and powerful sound is a relative newcomer.
		The harpsichord is not suited to the kind of expressive sostenuto music of Chopin, nor the commanding thunder of a Beethoven sonata.
	www.garritan.com /HarpsichordTutorilalGPO.html (2907 words)

	Musings: Pedal Harpsichord
		Although no antique harpsichords have survived the ages with their original pedal boards, enough 17th and 18th century references may be found to corroborate the existence of these exotic instruments.
		Two types of pedalboard harpsichords have been identified in workshop inventory listings of the period: (1) those with a simple pull-down mechanism consisting of cords attached from the undersides of the manual keys to corresponding pedals, and (2) a more complex instrument which was wholly independent of the manual harpsichord.
		Our pedal board harpsichord is of the second variety (please click for a discussion of the origins of this design in modern times).
	www.hubharp.com /musings_pedalharp.htm (377 words)

	A Brief History of the Harpsichord (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The harpsichord is a musical instrument whose strings are plucked from a keyboard and which sits on a table or stand while being played.
		The ancestor of the harpsichord was the psaltery.
		All harpsichords appear to be plucked by simple jacks sliding in a guide between a keyboard and a jack rail.
	www.sankey.ws /history.html (1450 words)

	Harpsichord at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Flemish makers also innovated the two-manual harpsichord, which was initially used merely to permit easy transposition (at the interval of a fourth), rather then to increase the expressive range of the instrument.
		Well into the eighteenth century, the harpsichord was considered to have advantages and disadvantages with respect to the piano.
		Besides solo works, the harpsichord is also well-suited to accompaniment in the basso continuo style (a function it maintained in opera even into the nineteenth century).
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Harpsichord.html (1945 words)

	The Pedal-Harpsichord in Baroque Germany
		The harpsichord consisted of two choirs of 8' strings and one of 4', with a compass of six octaves.
		Bach was naturally familiar with the instruments of the major harpsichord builders of his time, including Hamburg builder Hieronymus Albrecht Hass, of the preeminent North German family of stringed keyboard instrument makers.
		A pedal-harpsichord, that is, a harpsichord with an organ-type pedal-board, would have been found in the home of most German organists during the baroque period.
	www.baroquecds.com /pedalharpsichord.html (772 words)

	J.S. Bach - Music for Oboe and Harpsichord
		The music was recorded with the oboe at centre stage, and the harpsichord somewhat in the background.
		Here, the harpsichord and gamba are both on the same plane - after all, in the first two sonatas, which are really trio sonatas, the harpsichord is playing two-thirds of the music.
		This tendency was also present in the harpsichord solo prelude and fugue, both movements being of approximately the same speed; thus the prelude’s allegro was more moderato, and the fugue’s tempo was also nondescript - not as maestoso as I would have wished.
	www.signumrecords.com /catalogue/sigcd034/reviews.htm (1874 words)

	harpsichord — FactMonster.com
		Varying the touch in harpsichord playing does not alter the quality or volume of tone; to provide dynamic variety, octave couplers and various stops that change the tone were introduced.
		Contrast in volume and in tone color is made easier by the addition of a second keyboard, or manual, found on German harpsichords from the late 16th cent.
		the harpsichord, which required frequent tuning and replacement of quills, was superseded in general use by the piano.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/ent/A0822797.html (256 words)

	The Harpsichord
		A stringed keyboard instrument developed during the 14th and 15th century, the harpsichord was widely used until the early 19th century when it was superseded by the piano.
		The metal strings are sounded by plucking with a small piece of material called a plectrum which is held in a narrow slip of wood called a jack attached to the key mechanism.
		Some harpsichords had two keyboards with different sets of strings which could be coupled.
	hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu /hbase/music/harpsi.html (450 words)

	Biography of Jean-Michel Chabloz, harpsichord maker (Site not responding. Last check: )
		After spending some time abroad, he met a well-known harpsichord maker who was then established in his village.
		He was trained for three years in Amsterdam, during which he participated in the construction and restauration of many instruments.
		He got married in 1996 and practices the skill of harpsichord making on his own, ever since.
	www.harpsichord-making.com /English/Presentation/biography.htm (224 words)

	[CAUT] Harpsichord questions (long)
		The harpsichord is a Flemish Double, built in about 1991 from a Zuckerman kit.
		The keys have very small white cloth balance rail punchings around the balance rail pin and under the key, and I assume one would be able to level the keys in a similar fashion to leveling the keys on a piano.
		The harpsichord will be used as part of the continuo for the Vivaldi Concerto in C major for Two Trumpets and Orchestra, R. Question #5.
	www.ptg.org /pipermail/caut/2005-April/014784.html (831 words)

	Loving Lecter - Leda & the Swan - Essay - The Harpsichord
		In the words of British composer Thomas Beckman the harpsichord is, “The sound of harmony in composition.” At onetime or another most everyone has heard the piano, not so with the harpsichord.
		For a while this was filled by a cousin of the harpsichord called the clavichord; but due to the quietness of the instrument it didn’t have much use other than for the parlor.
		For many years music purists and traditionalists had kept the harpsichord alive and stood firm in their belief that harpsichord and piano music were not as compatible as believed.
	www.typhoidandswans.com /lovinglecter/leda/essay_harpsichord.html (1273 words)

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