PAST NEWS

You can see a selection of past issues of ‘Workshop News’ by clicking on the links below:

Restoration (August 2001)

Starting a new instrument (December 2001)

Swedish clavichords (May 2002)

Taking on a trainee (September 2002)

Twined strings (November 2003)

Setting up a clavichord (March 2004)

Thoughts on copying (May 2005)

Making and using over-wound strings (September 2005)

Sustain and how to achieve it (July 2006)

Decoration on clavichords (August 2007)

Variable design of old clavichords(December 2007)

WORKSHOP NEWS: September 2009

Repeat visitors to the site will have noticed how long it has been since I last updated the Workshop News. I apologise for this: it’s a result of being pre-occupied with workshop tasks and with writing a number of articles.

I am just about to depart for 14 days in Italy – not sun and sand, but hard conferencing with the Galpin Society and the Magnano Clavichord Symposium, where I shall be presenting a paper about Clavichords made in Latin America.

I leave in the workshop the project I am working on at present: it is a new German fretted clavichord for a customer, which will have split keys throughout for D#/E^b. This is surprisingly easy to arrange on a fretted clavichord as it does not require the addition of any extra strings: D# is obtained from the ‘D’ course and E flat from the ‘E’ course. More about this when I get back.

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