To ears that like it, the music of the 18th-Century harpsichord rustles sweetly, subtly, with a wealth of tonal color. To ears that don’t, its clucks and scratches sound like a hen yard. The strings ...

From the cover of The Harpsichord Diaries: A Musical Journey, a children's picture book by Elaine Funaro, Eric Love and Andrea Love (Horse & Buggy Press) Even with just a few notes, the harpsichord’s ...

John Phillips is an imposing giant of a man -- a master craftsman and amateur musician -- with an unusual creative streak. He makes harpsichords modeled on French, Flemish and Italian instruments from ...

Byron Will smoothes a corner in a harpsichord he's building. A warmer in foreground contains animal skin glue that holds some pieces of the instrument together. (Janet Goetze) has been making ...

Someday, perhaps, a lively musicologist will examine the history of the harpsichord and hipness. The antique plucked keyboard helped define music in the Baroque era and, through its tuning, the future ...

This is the fourth in a series of posts about appreciating classical music. Catch up on the first three parts of the series here, here and here. Though its name sounds archaic, the harpsichord is a ...

Hollywood finds its next star in the harpsichord, as Jude Law takes a seat behind the early instrument for new Henry VIII film ‘Firebrand’. Speaking to PEOPLE, Jude Law revealed: “Harpsichord was hard ...

OLIVIER BAUMONT: The Enlightenment in the New World: American Harpsichord Music of the 18th Century (Erato). “American harpsichord music” sounds like an oxymoron, but this surprising and enjoyable ...

To Germans, the music of Johann Sebastian Bach is a jealously guarded possession, and judgments of any new Bach performer are sharply critical, especially if the performer is a foreigner. But last ...