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Unlike other historical instruments, which are nowadays usually played with their traditional techniques, the harpsichord is still mostly played with modern fingerings. Of the players who use historical fingerings, quite a few employ hand... more
In the course of Ferrari’s life clavichord, harpsichord, Tangentenflügel, spinet, clavichord, fortepiano in his various building traditions coexisted and has changed significantly. The music of Giacomo Ferrari Gotifredo for keyboard... more
The famous J. B. Le Picard Organ (1750-1752) in the Basilica in Tongeren, reconstructed/restored by the Manufacture d'orgues Thomas (1997-2002) is without any doubt one of the most interesting historical organs in the region.... more
The purpose of this project was to build a hammered clavisimbalum after Arnaut de Zwolle c. 1440 that will be used in actual musical practice rather than primarily advancing the corpus of organology knowledge regarding the original... more
Este artigo dá uma visão dos tipos de instrumentos de teclado que se desenvolveram desde a Antiguidade até o período Barroco, dando início a uma série de artigos a serem publicados na "Revista Teclas e Afins" (Brasil), no intuito de... more
Настоящая статья представляет обзор истории двух редких музыкальных инстументов XVIII века - организированного фортепиано и серинета, приводятся их изображения в живописи. Статья представляет собой исправленную и дополненную версию... more
Tratados do período testemunham a ocorrência de teclados acoplados a instrumentos de diversas categorias, refletindo mudanças no pensamento filosófico, científico e tecnologia. A exemplo, Virdung (Alemanha, início do séc. XVI) retrata... more
Swedish archaeology is not spoiled for finds of Medieval music instruments. In the collections of Sigtuna museum there are two tuning keys for string instruments dated to the latter half of the 11th century, and what may be a playing key... more
De forma geral, órgãos da Idade Média não possuiriam notas cromáticas, com exceção ao Si bemol. Quase todo o entendimento que se tem sobre órgãos medievais é especulado a partir de iconografia de época, abundante na forma de ilustrações... more
The book describes the musical instruments preserved at Palazzo Mirto in Palermo. The collection includes a grand piano by Mathias Jakesch (Vienna, 1827), a mechanical organ by Anton Beyer (Naples, c. 1840), a grand piano by Pleyel... more
The keyboard toccatas of J. S. Bach, BWV 910-916, present a formidable challenge of interpretation to the modern-day performer. These works contain some of the most unusual compositional techniques to be found in Bach’s output due to... more
Organ tuning and temperament are essential elements of the soundscape of an organ. It is commonly assumed today that organ temperament practice shifted away from the well-documented standard of meantone temperament toward circulating... more
Enquanto instrumentos renascentistas de múltiplas cordas, pinçadas por plectros pela ação de um teclado, Clavisimbalum e Clavicytherium assemelham-se ao Saltério e ao Dulcimer. A construção do Clavisimbalum é detalhadaunicamente por... more
Questo volume, dedicato alla storia del pianoforte in Italia, è il frutto di un progetto di ricerca ventennale, culminato in un convegno internazionale presso il Museo di San Colombano – Collezione Tagliavini di Bologna. Inventato a... more
Bartolomeo Cristofori is one of the most famous musical instrument makers. He is renowned for the invention of the piano. His sophisticated hammer mechanism was taken up by his pupil and follower, Giovanni Ferrini. This book presents the... more
"De Clavicordio X. Proceedings of the International Clavichord Symposium" a cura di B.Brauchli, A.Galazzo, J.Wardman, Magnano (Biella), 2012, pp.179-190 (ISBN 978889072413)
The collection of musical instruments belonging to the Florence Conservatory, housed today at the Galleria dell’Accademia, includes a piano action known as the Gatti-Kraus action, ostensibly by Bartolomeo Cristofori, that belonged to the... more
This article traces the diffusion of pianos with a tangent action through and beyond the eighteenth century. Some are primitive harpsichord-to-piano conversions but others are refined pianos with a Stossmechanik with non-pivoting vertical... more
Peu d'instruments nous sont parvenus de Joseph Anton Moser (1731-1792), facteur d'orgues et d'instruments à clavier originaire de Bischofszell, établi à Fribourg et fondateur d'une dynastie de facteurs suisses de l'importance des... more
The Russel Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments includes two virginals, one polygonal made in 1586 by Alessandro Bertolotti, another rectangular made c.1620 and attributed to Francesco Poggio. Although their construction is quite... more
The violicembalo invented by Luigi Taparelli was a piano whose strings were not struck by hammers but rubbed by gut cords whose friction was similar to a bow. Father Luigi Taparelli D’Azeglio began to work on the violicembalo around 1829... more
Presented at the 44. Clavichordtage ·of the Deutsche Clavichord Societät in co-operation with the Musikwissenschaftlichen Seminar der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, 2–4 November 2018. The paper gives a detailed description... more
L'organologie est une discipline de la musicologie, traitant des instruments de musique et de leur histoire. Elle permet de retracer l'évolution des instruments de musique et de renouveler notre regard sur le répertoire qu'ils ont suscité... more
This paper draws the following conclusions: 1. Michele Feroci might have been Cristofori's first assistant in Florence. 2. The Russell Collection's Italian harpsichord (cat. no. EUCHMI 4302) was rebuilt in around 1722. 3. Ferrini's 1746... more
Early organs in the churches of San Sebastiano al Vesuvio, a little town near Naples
Through the work of Paul Everett and Michael Cole it has been known for some time that Charles Jennens, Handel's librettist of "The Messiah", acquired a pianoforte from the Bartolomeo Cristofori workshop in Florence, and had it shipped to... more
An article that reveals a link between the famous harpsichord makers Girolamo Zenti and Giovan Battista da Cortona, who married Girolamo's aunt Elisabetta Zenti. Zenti did born in Viterbo, as documents say, but as soon as he learnt to... more
Abstract Gustavo Delgado Parra Facultad de Música, UNAM In this article I intend to contextualising succinctly the figure of Antonio de Cabezón in the New World, taking into account his works of music "Obras de Música" that circulated in... more
There is an absolute maximum length a string can have in order to produce a specific note without breaking. For the higher notes of a plucked-string keyboard instrument this can be barely enough for the jacks and registers that need to... more
The paper provides new measurements, drawings and photographs of the clavichord on the Urbino intarsia (ca. 1479), including details unpublished until now, together with accurate dimensional measures. This contribution shows how the... more
Pascoal Caetano Oldovino (ou Oldovini) (vers 1710/20-1785) est un facteur d’orgues important originaire de Ligurie installé avant 1742 à Évora au Portugal et dont une quarantaine d’instruments d’église nous sont parvenus. Au même titre... more