At 8:20 AM -0400 5/29/98, Philip Tyre wrote:
>In a message dated 98-05-28 09:03:53 EDT, McCarty wrote:
>
><< I remember playing a clavicytherium at the first Boston Early Music
> Festival in the early '80s. I believe it was in Keith Hill's exhibit room.
> He also had a pedal harpsichord, on which Ed Parmentier was having a great
> time playing Bach organ works. >>
>
>I was Keith's junior partner at the time, and shlepper in chief.  In fact, I'm
>not even sure Keith made the trip.  The clavicytherium had no pedals, but in
>the same room we had a more standard pedal harpsichord.  Now, Ed is tall, but
>not THAT tall.
>
>Tyre,
>Dunedin
 
Right, the pedal harpsichord was a separate instrument.
 
James R. (Jay) McCarty, M.D.
Fort Worth, TX
"Sine ars, scientia nihil est"