Harpsichords and Virginals We offer three harpsichord and virginal kits: • • • French Double-manual Kit We have chosen as the prototype for our French harpsichord kit an instrument made in Paris in 1769 by Pascal Taskin, possibly the most famous of all 18th century French makers. We made this choice because the mid-18th century French style harpsichord represents the most successful 'general' purpose instrument. The instrument is suitable to all of the harpsichord literature of the baroque. The completed kit rewards the builder with a double-manual instrument of elegant proportion and detail having a range of five octaves, FF-f'' (61 notes). There are three ranks of jacks and three choirs of strings, 2 x 8', 1 x 4', with a buff stop which can be installed on either the back 8' choir or the upper-manual 8'.

Oct 11, 2017 French double manual harpsichord by Allan Winkler, #108 (1982). Testors Decal Maker Software Download. 8', 8', 4, with one of the lightest and sweetest buff stops I've heard.

An additional peau de buffle register with leather plectra can be added to the lower-manual 8' if the builder chooses. The transposing keyboards are replicas of Taskin's keyboards. The steel wire normally supplied with our kits is of a lower tensile strength than modern music wire. Its tensile strength reproduces that of the wire used in the 18th century and its high flexibility produces a tone somewhat richer in the lower harmonics and clearer in overall impression than harder wire. French kits include a trestle stand. However, continental harpsichords in the mid 18th century were often supported by a set of turned and fluted legs attached to a low rim or apron. Later the legs were often attached directly to the bottom of the instrument. Revival Deluxe 2 Download Full Version.