Overview

A Major (22-year or 5,000,000 note) Service of my Flemish Double Harpsichord

I have now migrated most of the pages from my old site and in the process have updated and improved them. There are also new pages (see sidebar) and more will follow.

In the past year or so, I have been servicing my harpsichords: restringing with the more authentic wire now being produced by Steven Birkett at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and cleaning 22 years of grime from David Higgins’ unique soundboard painting. The last stage is replacing worn quill plectra. I have discovered that the banks of the Danube are a good source of swan feathers. These sound good and are long-lasting, though many of those that I find are too large and strong to use.

My edition of Mahler's score of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is now printed and available from music shops worldwide. I am currently preparing the study score of Mahler’s edition of Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony (No. 3).

I am also making an improved version of my pantophonic microphone and will post photos and soundfiles when it is finished.


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Fonts

For those interested in obscure technical details, the font used for these words is Baskerville. Oswald is used for headings and Roboto Slab is used for the Menu and elsewhere.


Playing Sound Files

Audio playback on this site uses the HTML5 audio console and offers two alternative filetypes, Ogg Vorbis and MP3. These have been tested on IE9, Edge, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome and Dolphin (Android). If it supports it, your browser will play the Ogg Vorbis file in preference; otherwise the MP3 file. Unless your browser does not support either of the two formats (e.g. if it is an obsolete version), you should see below this message a console which will play a brief tune.


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last revised 16 June 2020