> Thomas wrote: Does anyone know if the string lengths of the Taskin in the
Marlowe Sigal Collection have ever been measured?
> Dean wrote: As I recall, they are the same as (i.e. identical to) the
Edinburgh Taskin. I have seen and played both.

I am very interested in any information about Taskin's scalings, thanks!

I would like to know the date of this instrument, as I cannot find it in the
Boalch Catalogue 3rd. ed.

As for the string lengths, to have two extant Taskins with identical string
lengths is surprising indeed. Even if they were identical initially, after
centuries of different soundboard warping, not to mention the not-infrequent
changes in bridge position, at least a few millimetres of differences will
often show, sometimes even enough to influence string size.

In my comparison of Taskin's scalings and stringings 

http://harps.braybaroque.ie/Taskin_stringing.htm

Table 1 shows scalings for all the C's of seven Taskin harpsichords: no two
of them are alike. 

Best
CDV


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