Kirkpatrick, a bachelor, lives in a tiny Manhattan apartment crowded with two harpsichords, an 18th Century piano, a clavichord and a thousand books. To keep his instruments in tune he seldom ...

England’s world-famed Dolmetsch family, who made and played harpsichords at Haslemere, have long since turned to defense work. †In the clavichord the strings are thumped by levers of metal.

History The piano is a keyboard instrument descended from early instruments like the clavichord and harpsichord, which used strings inside the instrument's body which were plucked or struck. But it's ...

At university, I studied mathematics, but took a year off to go work for a harpsichord maker. And then I did a Ph.D. in computer science, and during that time built a clavichord, a kind of keyboard ...