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Uploaded by on Jan 30, 2007

Harpsichordist

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  • a spint is pretty much a small harpsichord and the strings run horizontally

    it creates a slightly different sound too

  • I know nothing about musical intraments exept from what a learned from legend of zelda, so bare with me. But whats the difference?

  • deff a spinet .... different sound and shape

  • that's a spinet, not a harpsichord :)

    nice playing though

  • This is magical! <33

  • Praeludium BWV 999 (c-minor)

  • Haha--that's funny! we put the fishing line and tell the little predators: eat this if you can, sucker! :D

    Which reminds me of--i made recently this renaissance chromatic harp and had the stupidity to order strings from some "celtic harp mostly" company. So one of the longest strings wasn't even long enough to fit in the harp. I will surely order one but in the meantime i put almost matching diameter and material nylon cord for grass-cutting machine lol. It "works" just as fine :):)

  • Fishing line is used quite often these days - the original boar bristles are still used by some, but it's a little tricky to get good ones, and to get the right strength, and then they have a tendency to get eaten by bugs eventually. !

  • Yes it is not the conventional, much more primitive:) i looked recently at photos of the "normal" jacks and even red one interesting page of a guy who made one (h.) and used short segments of nylon fishing line for "return-springs" in every jack!

    I looked at the old french Diderot encyclopedia but there were the "normal" jacks: i seem to remember the rectanguar swinging "things" in the slits.

  • I think I can picture what you're talking about. I don't know the de Zwolle manuscript well myself though - I've just heard of it. It may well be just as you describe. That's certainly not a normal jack/plectrum design for a harpsichord though. The wikipedia page for 'harpsichord' has a good diagram of the conventional setup (see figure 2).

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