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To: AnAmericanMother
Harpsichoed music!

I love to hear harpsichord music!

I have cassett tapes of some harpsichord pieces as well as some Bach and Pachobel.

1,885 posted on 04/19/2009 2:08:11 PM PDT by Pippin (This is the day the Lord hath made!)
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To: Pippin
Lady Nevelle's Ground - Purcell, from the book of that name.

My dear husband got me my very own harpsichord for our 25th wedding anniversary.

That's the maker at the keyboard. He's a chiropractor by day, and makes harpsichords in his garage by night.

Which sounds kinda loopy, but the best harpsichords are made by the old fashioned hand methods, not the pseudo-piano types with the heavy mechanism that were popular in the 60s and 70s.

Plus our church music director, who really knows, says it's one of the nicest small Flemish-style single-manual harpsichords he's ever played.

1,919 posted on 04/19/2009 3:12:24 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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