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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.
Zuckermann, Wolfgang (1969) The Modern Harpsichord: Twentieth Century Instruments and Their Makers, New York : October House, ISBN 0-8079-0165-2; The New Grove: Early Keyboard Instruments. Macmillan, 1989 ISBN 0-393-02554-3. (material from here is also available online in Grove Music Online) Beurmann, Andreas (2012) Harpsichords and More ...
Ruckers: A Harpsichord and Virginal Building Tradition. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-06682-2. Rueger, Christoph (1986). Musical Instruments and Their Decoration. Cincinnati, Ohio: Seven Hills Books,. ISBN 0-911403-17-5. Russell, Raymond (1973). The Harpsichord and Clavichord: An Introductory Study, 2nd ed. London: Faber and Faber.
A number of instruments have been invented, designed, and made, that make sound from matter in its liquid state. This class of instruments is called hydraulophones . Hydraulophones use an incompressible fluid, such as water, as the initial sound-producing medium, and they may also use the hydraulic fluid as a user-interface.
Hans Ruckers was a Catholic and had 11 children, two of whom became harpsichord makers, and his daughter Catharina (to whom harpsichord maker Willem Gompaerts (c.1534 – after 1600) was godfather) married into the instrument-making Couchet family, ensuring a strong continuation of both dynasties; his son Joannes continued in the family craft.
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
These instruments may have a resonator box, but removing it should not render the instrument unplayable (although it may result in quite a different sound being produced). They include the piano therefore, as well as other kinds of zithers such as the koto , and musical bows .
The university bought two further instruments from Russell's collection – an English double harpsichord by Jacob Kirckman, bought at auction in 1970, and a French double harpsichord by Jean Goermans and Taskin, purchased from Maud Russell in 1974 – bringing the total number to twenty-one.