Peter, Chris, Claudio,

I heartly thank you all for your help. Thanks Chris for having sent me offlist an Excel file.

I saved all your email and I’m going to read each one carefully, I’ll be back should anything be not so clear.

In the meanwhile, may ask you a more general advise?

Here it is.
I don’t know yet which instrument I would make, sorry. I have a drawing of the Nuremberg Silbermann 1775 (MIR 1061), unfretted, and a drawing of the Nuremberg Hubert 1789 (MIR 1058), fretted, is on its way, I’ll receive in 3-4 days.

But I have a lot of doubts: will I be able to make a fretted clavichord with all the cranked keyboard and tangent position and so on? I read the Hubert has some complicated way of guiding the keys...
On the other side, is the Silbermann a good-sounding instrument? I find it has a very small soundboard, isn’t it detrimental to the tone?

Or maybe I should aim to another clavichord?
I am looking to a clavichord both “easy” to make but with a good tone, or should I say a clavichord which is easier to produce a good tone.

I hope some of the members are willing to shed some light as I know harpsichord fairly well (I made some with good results) but never attempted or studied clavichords.

Best regards,


Domenico


> Il giorno 05 feb 2017, alle ore 10:53, Peter Bavington <[log in to unmask]> ha scritto:
> 
> Domenico Statuto asked:
> 
>> I am trying to understand how the position of the tangents in a
>> fretted clavichord is to be calculated. Would you please provide a
>> brief explanation or point me towards some literature?
> 

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