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- Jensen Harpsichords - Illustrated on-line catalog showing custom-made harpsichords in French, Flemish and Italian traditions, and two German-style clavichords. Prices, specification and options. Section on harpsichord maintenance and instrument construction.
- The Difference Between Piano and Harpsichord Touch - Advice for pianists approaching the harpsichord for the first time, including differences in key resistance, size, material and colour between the instruments.
- Craig, Hugh - Harpsichords - Harpsichord maker and repairer: products and services, ordering information.
- Harpsichord Clearing House - Makers and dealers of early keyboard instruments: harpsichords, virginals, clavichords, continuo organs.
- Kottick, Edward: Harpsichord Maker and Author - Agent for Zuckermann Harpsichords in Iowa, lecturer and author of The Harpsichord Owner's Guide.
- Harpsichord Services of London - Rents, tunes, repairs and transports harpsichords, clavichords and fortepianos. Profile and stock list.
- Sankey, John - Harpsichordist to the Internet. Complete MIDI recordings of Scarlatti and Byrd, new Scarlatti edition, essays on harpsichord technique and history.
- Claviers Baroques - Upper Canada Harpsichords - Builds, sells, rents, tunes, services, transports and repairs harpsichords, clavichords, fortepianos and instrument kits.
- Deegan, Robert - Harpsichords - Builds, repairs, and restores harpsichords, virginals and spinets: concert hire service; online sales.
- Gotto, Alan - Harpsichords - (UK) Harpsichords, spinets and virginals.
Wikipedia Articles
- History of the harpsichord - The harpsichord was an important keyboard instrument in Europe from the 15th through the 18th centuries, and as revived in the 20th, is widely played today. This article gives a history of the harpsichord; for information on the construction of this instrument, its variant forms, and the music composed for it, see harpsichord.
- Harpsichord concertos (J. S. Bach) - The harpsichord concertos, BWV 1052-1065, are concertos for harpsichord, strings and continuo by Johann Sebastian Bach. There are seven concertos for a single harpsichord, (BWV 1052-1058), three concertos for 2 harpsichords (BWV 1060-1062), two concertos for 3 harpsichords (BWV 1063-1064), and one concerto for 4 harpsichords, (BWV 1065).
- Concertino for Harpsichord and String Orchestra - Concertino for Harpsichord and String Orchestra is a short harpsichord concerto written in 1934 by English composer Walter Leigh.
- RMI 368 Electra-Piano and Harpsichord - The RMI 368 Electra-Piano and Harpsichord was an electronic piano and the most popular instrument created by RMI. It was renowned in different forms of popular music.
- Harpsichord - A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when each key is depressed.