>If I get very rich one day I'll commission a musician who's willing to 
record the weirdest pieces on harpsichord (Thomas)

I wouldn't go there.

Someone gave me a recording as a present a couple of years ago -- "The 
Contemporary Harpsichord" (TROY668). It features pieces by a number of 
modern composers and to my untrained ears its a bit like variations on 
one of those youTube videos that have a cat playing a piano. You might 
like to find a copy and see what you make of it. (I don't know what the 
composers and performers honestly think of this stuff -- I prefer candid 
assessments like the liner notes describing the recording of the 
unfinished ballard "in two tableux" titled "Return of the Son of Monster 
Magnet" which simply stated that "This is what happens when you let a 
bunch of freaks loose in a studio full of rented percussion equipment at 
three in the morning".)

Anybody familiar with this CD? ("Flame shields.....up!")

Martin Usher