Personal Details

4-octave Neapolitan-style harpsichords

• Biography and CV

• My interest in the Neapolitan school

• Publications

• Choice of a Neapolitan harpsichord as model

• Former curator, Russell Collection

• General background

• Former Reader in Music, University of Edinburgh

• Characteristics of Neapolitan harpsichords

• The design of a prototype

• Construction of 4 harpsichords

• Contact addresses

• Their particular features

• Consultations

• The decoration of these instruments

• Restorations

• Neapolitan-style instruments for sale

• Owner's guidelines to the care of historical keyboard instruments

• Seminar on the construction of these harpsichords

• Ruckers papers available for sale

• Four-harpsichord concert

• Drawings of harpsichords, virginals and stands available for sale

• 13 steps to a revolutionary new method of constructing harpsichords!!

New 5-octave 'Mozart' harpsichords

Concert in Fredensborg Palace, Copenhagen, Denmark

• General background information

• Concert

• The stringing design and soundboard layout

• The specification

Instruments built in the past

• The use of the Neapolitan oncia

• Ruckers 'French' harpsichords

• The drawing and design

• Ruckers spinett virginals

• The case construction

• The soundboard rosettes

Amazing colleagues

• Keyboards, jacks and quilling

• A tribute to John Barnes

• A tribute to John Rhodes and William Thomas

• Important Features of this harpsichord

• A brief history of the musical and decorative states of the Franco-Flemish harpsichord

• Details of the original state of the instrument

• Details of the eighteenth-century states of this harpsichord

• Details of the modern history of this harpsichord

• Problems encountered in the ethical restoration of this harpsichord

Antique harpsichord for sale