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Andrew Lagerquist has been involved in the world of early keyboards since 1973..., his great passion has become the Swedish style of clavichord making, of which he offers and has built several designs....
Clavichords, Andrew Lagerquist, Swedish Clavichords, Specken, Lindholm-Soderstrom, Early Music
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Annotated List of Early Keyboard Resources.
music, medieval music, musicology, composers, performance practice, technique, clavichord, harpsichord, keyboard, early, monochord, chekker, virginal, spinet, piano, organ, clavecin, cembalo, clavier
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This report describes day by day the entire process of building a copy of an anonymous clavichord in the collection of the Nordiska Museet (number NM 264.785), Stockholm, now deposited in the Musikmuseet....
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The instrument is of the 'fretted' kind, where each string is used to play more than one note. This means a smaller instruments and less strings to tune. As a drawback, the notes that use the same string cannot be played simultaneously. This not only implies that some chords are forbidden, but also calls for a much cleaner 'legato' technique, as...
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The British Clavichord Society.
Clavichord, Pedal clavichord, Tuning,
Composition Awards,
Edinburgh,
Russell Collection,
St Cecilia's Hall,
Adlam,
Steve Barrell,
Peter Bavington,
Benson-Wilson,
Brauchli,
Bruges,
Alan Bullard,
Adrian...
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Two types of stringed keyboard instrument were available to the household or court musician from the 16th century to the middle of the 18th: the harpsichord and its near relations, the spinet and virginal; and the clavichord....
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The Deutsche Clavichord Societaet (DCS, German Clavichord Society), a registered non-profit society, was founded in 1993.
The DCS is a focus for every aspect of the clavichord and its music, especially for the revival of clavichord playing and its tradition. Clavichord, early music, DCS, keyboard music.
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On Saturday the 3rd of May 1986, Jan Raas, Kees Rosenhart and Koen Vermeij were present at a ‘Clavichord Day’ in Amersfoort. Later in a café they came to the condusion that it was time to form a ‘Clavichord Club’....
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Essays, resources, information and images on the clavichord.
The clavichord is an old instrument, dating back to perhaps the early fifteenth century, possibly even the fourteenth century. It was common through the eighteenth century, beloved by the entire Bach family, Mozart and even Beethoven. It was briefly dormant during the...
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The clavichord is one of the oldest keyboard instruments. Although instruments on the clavichord principle were known in the fourteenth century, its invention is generally credited in the middle 15th century, having developed out of the medieval monochord, or manicordium, to which its name was distorted. The keys of the clavichord are the direct...
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