Early Keyboard Instruments by Hugh Jones
The workshop currently produces a range of early keyboard instruments all from original plans in European museums, as shown. In addition to the instruments illustrated the workshop has the following plans in stock.
- Taskin French double Harpsichord F2 to f3 Edinburgh 1769.
- Hemsch French double harpsichord F2 to f3 Yale 1756
- Gregori Italian single harpsichord Edinburgh 1726 C1 to d3
- Keene and Brackley Bentside spinet Edinburgh 1715 C2 to e3
- Clavichord anon circa 1775 Nuremberg Partially fretted C2 to c3
- Clavichord anon circa 1760 Smithsonian partially fretted C2 to f3
- Clavichord Johann Silbermann Nuremberg 1775 Unfretted F2 to f3
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Blanchet double manual harpsichord
(Dowd 1765: F2 to f3)
- Compass: G1 to g3 Casework timber: New Guinea Rosewood (Pterocarpus indicus)
- Keys (naturals): Gidgee (Acacia cambadgie)
- Keys (accidentals): Ivory Wood (Siphonodon australe)
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Grimaldi Italian single harpsichord
(Nuremberg 1697)
- Compass: G1 to g3
- Casework timber: Huon Pine (Dacrydium franklinii)
- Keys (naturals): Bone
- Keys (accidentals): Gidgee (Acacia cambadgie)
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Ruckers Flemish double harpsichord extrapolated scalings
(Antwerp 1646: F2 to f3)
- Compass F1 to f3
- Casework timber: Australian Cedar (Toona australis)
- Keys (naturals): Rasberry Jam (Acacia acuminata)
- Keys (accidentals): Ivory Wood (Siphonodon australe)
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Ruckers single manual harpsichord
(Antwerp 1640)
- Compass:A1 to d3
- Casework timber: Australian Cedar (Toona australis)
- Keys (naturals): Saffron Heart (Halfordia kendak)
- Keys (accidentals): Gidgee (Acacia cambadgie)
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Hubert partially fretted clavichord
(Edinburgh 1784: C1 to f3)
- Compass: C1 to d3
- Casework timber:Australian Cedar (Toona australis)
- Keys (naturals):Mulga (Acacia aneura)
- Keys (accidentals): Iron Wood (species unknown)
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Keene English Virginal
(Edinburgh 1668: F2 to f3 no F#2)
- Compass: F1 to f3
- Casework timber: Forest oak (Allocasuarina torolosa)
- Inlays: Ivory wood (Siphonodon australe)
- Keys (naturals): Gidgee (Acacia cambadgie)
- Keys (accidentals): Maracaibo Boxwood (Gossipiospermum praecox)
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