It is A111. See http://harpsichordphoto.org/french/index.html. More
information to be found in the issue of EKJ referenced there.

Regards,
Dean

On 11 February 2016 at 20:10, J. Claudio Di Veroli <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> > 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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