 I
use keyboard instruments which fit the repertoire I play as closely as
possible. In this endeavour I am helped enormously by curators of museums
and by kind owners and builders of harpsichords and fortepiano's. My own
instruments, however, are the following:
Harpsichord
after Giusti, 1680, (Germ. Museum Nürnberg)
by Willem Kroesbergen, Utrecht 1988, restored by Jorge Lavista, Amsterdam
1993.
One manual, 2x8', C-c''', short octave, false inner-outer case. 440
hz.
Harpsichord
(see picture below - click
on it to enlarge)
after Vaudry, Paris - late 17th Century
by Joop
Klinkhamer, Amsterdam 1978
One manual, 2x8', GG-c''', short & broken octave. 415 hz.
Harpsichord (see
pictures below - click
on them to enlarge)
after Mietke
by Joop
Klinkhamer, Amsterdam 2001
Two manuals, FF-e''' . 392/415/440 hz.
Harpsichord (see
picture below)
after the Couchet/Blanchet/Taskin in the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston
by Joop Klinkhamer, Amsterdam 1978
Two manuals, 8'8'4', peau-de-buffle, FF-f''' 392/415/440 hz.
Chest Organ
after northern German 17th Century examples
by Van der Putten en Veger, Winschoten 1988
8', C-c''', 392/415/440/466 hz.
Clavichord
after an anonymous southern German instrument ca.1750 in the Gemeentemuseum,
Den Haag
by Titus Crijnen, Amsterdam 1998
C-e''' 392 hz.
Fortepiano
(see picture below and the one on top of this
page)
after Gottfried Silbermann, 1746/1749
by Thomas and Barbara Wolf, The Plains, VA, USA 1999
FF-e''', hand stops for damping and 'pantalon' registers 392/415 hz.
Fortepiano
after the Johann Daniel Dulcken, München
1794, in the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
by Albert and Christiaan Maene, Ruiselede 1977, FF-f''' 430 hz.
Fortepiano (see
picture below)
after J Walther, Wien, 1795
by Paul MacNulty, Amsterdam 1996, FF-g''', 430 hz.
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