 I
use keyboard instruments which fit the repertoire I play as closely as
possible. In this endeavour I am helped enormously by curators of museums
and by kind owners and builders of harpsichords and fortepiano's. My own
instruments, however, are the following:
Harpsichord
(see pictures below - click
on them to enlarge)
Original Italian, Anonymus, Florence ca.1720 - probably from the workshop of Bartolomeo Cristofori.
One manual C-d''', false inner-outer case, lidpainting 2nd half 18th Century: 'Le Menuet', after Tintoretto. Cf. Rowland-Jones, Early Music, 1998, XXVI: 415-432.
Harpsichord
(see picture below - click
on it to enlarge)
after Vaudry, Paris - late 17th Century
by Joop
Klinkhamer, Amsterdam 1978
One manual, 2x8', GG-c''', short & broken octave. 415 hz.
Harpsichord (see
pictures below - click
on them to enlarge)
after Mietke
by Joop
Klinkhamer, Amsterdam 2001
Two manuals, FF-e''' . 392/415/440 hz.
Harpsichord (see
picture below)
after the Couchet/Blanchet/Taskin in the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston
by Joop Klinkhamer, Amsterdam 1978
Two manuals, 8'8'4', peau-de-buffle, FF-f''' 392/415/440 hz.
Chest Organ
after northern German 17th Century examples
by Van der Putten en Veger, Winschoten 1988
8', C-c''', 392/415/440/466 hz.
Clavichord
after an anonymous southern German instrument ca.1750 in the Gemeentemuseum,
Den Haag
by Titus Crijnen, Amsterdam 1998
C-e''' 392 hz.
Fortepiano
(see picture below and the one on top of this
page)
after Gottfried Silbermann, 1746/1749
by Thomas and Barbara Wolf, The Plains, VA, USA 1999
FF-e''', hand stops for damping and 'pantalon' registers 392/415 hz.
Tangent Piano (Tangentenflügel)
(see picture below - click
on it to enlarge)
after Spath and Schmal, made by Christaan Maene, Ruiselede (Belgium) 2006. FF-f''', 5 registers.
Fortepiano (see
picture below)
after J Walther, Wien, 1795
by Paul MacNulty, Amsterdam 1996, FF-g''', 430 hz.
Harpsichord (see picture below - click
on it to enlarge)
after Ruckers 1624 in the Unterlinden Museum, Colmar by Kevin Fryer, San Francisco 2007. Lidpainting after Aelbert Cuyp: 'Orpheus playing for the animals' by Millicent Tomkins.
Two manuals, 8'8'4', GG/AA-d''', 392/415 hz.
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