My memory is that CPE tells us in his Art of playing that one should be able to make fine distinctions of loud and soft without changing registration. Without changing keyboards on the harpsichord. This isn't an important statement and not revered to often enough.  

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> On May 25, 2016, at 6:54 AM, Dietrich Hein <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I remember that the musicologist Peter Wollny had found evidence in CPEs scores (I think it was in the findings from Kiev), that he may have thought of a combined harpsichord/fortepiano like the Ferrini or Hellen, -however I cannot tell You anymore what he came across (at least ten years ago, he asked, whether such instruments existed).
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> cheers from north Germany,
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> Dietrich
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