Clavichords
There are 7 instruments in working order.
- 2 fretted clavichords, 4 ½ octave B to eee in the style of the mid 18th C. Made in the Stanhope workshop in the 1990s. Small resonant instruments with sufficient compass for works such as the `48`.
- 2 1970s unfretted Zuckermann clavichords. Their compass from A to fff , useful for the music of CPE Bach, Haydn.
- Deckert 5 ½ octave FF to cccc unfretted clavichord made c.1800 in Gross-Breitenbach bei Arnstadt, Saxony. Restored by Jean Maurer and strung in brass. A virtually identical instrument exists in the Oxford University Bate Collection. Both are featured in Paul Simmonds' essay "Carl Engel and the Clavichord" published in the Galpin Society Journal, April 2004 LXI, copies of which are now available in French and German.
- Deckert copy made in the Stanhope workshop nearly 200 years later.
This is being used to experiment with Iron stringing instead of brass.
- 1951 unfretted clavichord by Sir Michael Cary. Typical of the instruments of its time exemplified by Tom Goff. It has a convex soundboard and double curvature bridge.
