Last year Wanda Landowska's harpsichord was donated to Northern
Illinois University.   We have it in the organ studio right now.
(Large PLEYEL with all sorts of foot pedals.)   I'm going to try to
get as much of it working as I can easily without hopefully doing any
damage, and tune it up.   It seems to have all the strings and plectra
pretty much intact.  The action is very stiff compared with modern
instruments like our Hubbard.
Eventually, I suspect it will wind up at the Smithsonian.  We need to
keep it for the present.
     (I am now doing the harpsichord tuning and minor maintenance on
our other harpsichords).   I have discovered that carving plectra is
not much different than making oboe reeds!  (I play -sort of- oboe
too.)
     Rosemary Lane
 
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