I am not sure if I agree with your comment about  "rooms in which people
gathered (especially in homes) to listen to clavichord music were much
smaller than then they are today. "

Many houses of the well-to-do had quite large rooms and there were also
chapels and small churches where recitals may have taken place.

My clavichords have been used for recitals in a medium-sized church with a
high domed ceiling , and even slighly deaf people were amazed how they
could hear the sound so distinctly.

Regards

George


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On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 2:30 PM, Tom Roach <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I recall reading, in a history of the instrument, that when the clavichord
> was developed, the rooms in which people gathered (especially in homes)
> were much smaller than then they are today.  Hence the volume of the
> instrument was of lesser importance than it is today because, small numbers
> of people did indeed stand or sit around the instrument to hear it played.
>
> Tom Roach
> Waterloo
> Ontario
> 519 746 5324
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> On 2017-04-15 07:43, Philip Kimber wrote:
>
>> In answer to David Pickett's comment about the difficulty of listening to
>> clavichord recordings because of the volume problem, I suppose the only
>> solution is to play oneself or for a small audience to gather round the
>> player at the instrument in real life. But there are almost no opporunities
>> to do the latter.
>>
>>
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