Most of his clients are music teachers and teaching institutions in Europe and the U.S., including Portland State University, which has one of his Italian-style harpsichords. Others include ...

The standard harpsichord is wing shaped, has as many as four or five sets of strings and up to 63 keys. One virginal is going to an amateur musician in New York. This Italian harpsichord is going ...

1. The Italian harpsichord maker Bartolomeo Cristofori is credited with the invention of the piano in 1726, and called it gravicembalo col piano e forte, or "harpsichord that plays soft and loud.

But Brooke has made nearly 30 harpsichords from scratch in his garage since 2010, all with just a vague design in his mind, the look of those built by 17 th-century Italian builder Giacomo Ridolfi.

Italian harpsichord maker Bartolomeo Cristofori is considered to be the inventor of the piano. Snopes readers asked us if the piano was indeed originally referred to as the pianoforte. We learned ...

Egarr played two instruments made by Curtis Berak -- a single-manual Italian harpsichord patterned after a 17th century model for works by Frescobaldi and Froberger, and a double-manual ...

Don’t ask questions, we’re not sure why. Scarlatti (1685-1757) was heralded as the ‘greatest Italian harpsichord composer of his time’. Although the Baroque composer composed in a variety of musical ...

Playing a Flemish virginal and an Italian harpsichord, the enterprising Skip Sempé has produced a fluid and involving conspectus of Renaissance sounds, with the instruments, recording ...

The piano is arguably the single most important instrument of Western music. It is an incredibly versatile instrument, capable of playing virtually anything an orchestra can. The world’s oldest ...

Schulenberg played all these pieces on the Italian harpsichord. Everything else was played on the French harpsichord, which has two registers for more treble work and a brighter, bigger sound.

Italian harpsichord maker Sebastian Marchisio started building it in 1799 in Turin. The wood was claimed to be sourced from descendants of the Lebanon cedars that King Solomon used to build the first ...