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Dear Andrew,
 
In 1959 as a GI chaplain's ass't in Germany I was walking down a street in  
Wiesbaden when I saw a small Sperrhake in the window of Piano Haus Schulz,  
learned to tune equal from a tuning fork A, and had a wonderful time with 
it  including playing continuo in Brandenburg 4 with the touring 7th Army  
Symphony. That was just the beginning. There have been a number of instruments 
 since, including a Philip Tyre German double with a push-up organ 
pedalboard;  you haven't heard the Preludes and Fugues until you've heard them on 
the  harpsichord. This week I was able to buy a Peter Fisk double after Mietke.
 
Henson Markham
 
 
In a message dated 12/2/2017 5:45:04 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
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Hi  David, As a GI in post war Germany, I was enthralled by Neupert's 
Couperin in  a piano shop in Frankfurt, later in Nurnberg.
this model is available in  Canada for $3000.00 plus. I do not like the 
pejorative tone of "revival  instrument" - but somewhat the oprobium skips the 
Pleyels, in spite of  Ladowska's 16ft register -  her "original sin". We 
must remember that  great harpsichord recodings were made on "plucked pianos" - 
Bach Landowska 48,  Valenti - Scarlatti on a Challis and Ruggero Gerlin 
complete Couperin on a  Pleyel'.
Eta Harich Schneider never told her students which cembalo to buy  or play. 
My favorite example of revival excellence is Ruth Dietz recording of  
Vincent Lubeck and Pachelbel on Cantate LP, played on a humble Sperrhake.  Please 
listen to it and admire the "discreet charm" of revival insruments.  Andrew 
Makuch, owner of a vintage Chalis. PS And let's remember that Gustav  
Lenonhard's "Goldbergs" were recorded on an Ammer, made in Easter  Germany.














-----  Original Message -----
From: Kelzenberg, David  C<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
To:  [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Sent:  Saturday, December 02, 2017 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: harpsichord/clavichord for  a budget?

David wrote:

>>>In case you don't know what  Dongsok meant when he spoke of "revival" 
harpsichords: in the 1950s and early  60s, some folks began building 
harpsichords, which had not really been done  for more than a century

David, you must be a lot younger than I  am!  "Revival" harpsichords go way 
back beyond the 1950s.  Try the  turn of the 20th century.  Landowska's 
famous new "model" from Pleyel was  introduced in 1912.  In fact, the later 
1950s and early 1960s witnessed  the seeds and early shoots of the "historical" 
harpsichord  movement.

dk

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