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The clavichord is a stringed rectangular keyboard instrument [1] that was used largely in the Late Middle Ages, through the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras. [2]
John Challis (1907–1974) was an American builder of harpsichords and clavichords, at one time the only such maker of harpsichords in the United States.. His father Charles was a jeweler and watchmaker who moved his family from South Lyon, Michigan to Ypsilanti, Michigan in 1919.
In 1952, he was asked to restore a clavichord that had been badly damaged in the war; this led him to build his own clavichord, then instruments for other people. [5] His first harpsichord dates from 1953. [6] Skowroneck had no formal training as a builder; he learned his craft instead by inspecting existing instruments.
Both makers' clavichords had strings an octave higher in the bass register of the instrument, which Bach disliked. [6] [19] Bach may have acted as Friederici's agent; [20] Forkel wrote that Bach was selling fortbiens in 1773. [17] The Mozart family owned two instruments by Friederici: a two-manual harpsichord and possibly a clavichord. [21]
On the basis of this collection, Neupert built harpsichords, then also spinets, clavichords and fortepianos from 1906 onwards. This made the company the largest of its kind in Germany and the world's oldest among the workshops engaged in harpsichord building today.
When the term spinet is used to designate a harpsichord, typically what is meant is the bentside spinet, described in this section.For other uses, see below. The bentside spinet shares most of its characteristics with the full-size instrument, including action, soundboard, and case construction.
Boalch, Donald H. (1995) Makers of the Harpsichord and Clavichord, 1440–1840, 3rd ed., with updates by Andreas H. Roth and Charles Mould, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-318429-X. A catalogue, originating with work by Boalch in the 1950s, of all extant historical instruments. Germann, Sheridan (2002) Harpsichord Decoration: A Conspectus.
"The Clavichord in 20th-Century America", in Livro de Homenagem a Macario Santiago Kastner, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (1992) [11] "Clavichord Technique in the Mid-Twentieth Century", Proceedings of the International Clavichord Symposium, Magnano, 9–11 September 1993, Istituto per I Beni Musicali in Piemonte, Turin (1994) [12]
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