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Boalch-Mould Online A searchable database of 2000+ harpsichord and clavichord makers, 2500 instruments, and 4300 instrument photos. The first edition of Donald Boalch's catalog of harpsichord makers is accessible online at www.hathitrust.org .
Of the Hass family instruments, Frank Hubbard wrote that 'only one has what could be regarded as a normal disposition.' Their surviving harpsichords show an attempt to develop the instrument in a number of ways: one from 1721 is 2.58 m long, and one from 1723 has the unusual disposition 8' 8' 8' 4'. Hass occasionally used a 16' set of strings ...
These instruments may be classified with a suffix, based on how the strings are caused to vibrate. 4: Hammers or beaters; 5: Bare hands and fingers; 6: Plectrum; 7: Bowing 71: Using a bow; 72: Using a wheel; 73: Using a ribbon; 8: Keyboard; 9: Using a mechanical drive
He was known to be a performing cellist, gambist and singer at the opera in Lyon as well as an instrument maker. [2] The last archival reference to Pierre is a 1750 advertisement offering several grand harpsichords by Donzelague for sale in Lyon, and it has been speculated that this represents liquidation of the Donzelague estate after his death.
Printable version; In other projects ... [4] Alto DomraAlto: e a d1[5] Tenor DomraTenor: B e a[6] Bass DomraBass: ... Harpsichord (Europe, keyboard instrument) Hu Hu ...
The following family members are recorded as building instruments: [4] Robert Denis I (1520 - 1589), a builder of organs and spinets in Paris. Claude Denis (1544 - 1587), son of Robert I Robert Denis II ( died 1589), son of Robert I Jean Denis I (c.1549 - 1634), son of Robert I, elected as jurés of the instrument makers guild in Paris in 1601
His collection included instruments from all the main harpsichord-building areas of Europe: a number of English spinets; early harpsichords and virginals from Italy; Flemish instruments by the Ruckers; a late French instrument by Pascal Taskin; and a clavichord and harpsichord from North Germany, both by Johann Adolph Hass. [1]
His surviving instruments are a harpsichord and a number of pianos. Joannes Dulcken (10 September 1742 – 22 July 1775) was born in Antwerp ; he was the son of Joannes Daniel Dulcken, upon whose death he moved with his mother, sister and brother-in-law to Brussels in 1764, where a workshop was set up.