This album shows many of the steps I used to build my harpsichord. It's
based on two harpsichords from ca.1769 by Pascal Taskin. It started out as
the "basic kit" by Hubbard Harpsichords from the mid-1970s, though I
included updates they put in over the years to make it more historically
accurate. It has 63 keys on each manual, and is 8x8x4. The upper manual
moves to couple with the lower. I have never installed the pads for the buff
stop, and probably never will. The painting around the rose was done by
Tamara
Stoneburner. The rest of the paint is milk paint with linseed oil top
coats. Most of the construction is poplar, with important structural parts
of maple. The wrestplank is maple; soundboard is spruce (from the 70s!),
with a thin coat of shellac on top. Built September 1998 through to late
2000. This took me over 1000 hours to build.
All photos Copyright Brian A. Whaley. All rights reserved. Photo album generated by album from Marginal Hacks by David Madison on Sun Apr 4 09:59:20 2021