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A DOUBLE MANUAL HARPSICHORD
by Joannes Ruckers
The later nameboard inscribed Joannes Ruckers Me Fecit Antverpiae 1627; the later case painted with grotesques on a gilt ground, the inside lid painted with an extensive wooded landscape with a town in the distance, the soundboard painted with garlands, fruits, flowers, butterflies, snails and shrimps and dated 1627 with a gilt rose with the initials IR and a putto with a harp, the keyboard with arcaded ebony naturals and ivory accidentals, on a later stand--89½ x 36in. (227 x 91.5cm.)
Compass: 5 octaves, FF-f3
This instrument is listed in Donald M. Boalch, Makers of the Harpsichord and Clavichord 1440-1840, second edition, Oxford, 1974, p.136, no.44a, which states that the instrument was extended and newly encased in 1753. The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, London, 1984, vol.III, p.269, refers to this instrument as one of a type of extended-compass double manual harpsichords, which Ruckers made especially for the French market. Op.cit. p.272, where this instrument is listed as (c) 1627, notes that the harpsichord underwent 'petit revalement' whereby the original compass of the lower keyboard, GG-d3, was aligned with the upper to give the present uniform compass of both keyboards in accordance with the 18th Century practice of rebuilding the case and keyboard while leaving the soundboard unaltered.
The jacks of this instrument have been replaced.
by Joannes Ruckers
The later nameboard inscribed Joannes Ruckers Me Fecit Antverpiae 1627; the later case painted with grotesques on a gilt ground, the inside lid painted with an extensive wooded landscape with a town in the distance, the soundboard painted with garlands, fruits, flowers, butterflies, snails and shrimps and dated 1627 with a gilt rose with the initials IR and a putto with a harp, the keyboard with arcaded ebony naturals and ivory accidentals, on a later stand--89½ x 36in. (227 x 91.5cm.)
Compass: 5 octaves, FF-f3
This instrument is listed in Donald M. Boalch, Makers of the Harpsichord and Clavichord 1440-1840, second edition, Oxford, 1974, p.136, no.44a, which states that the instrument was extended and newly encased in 1753. The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, London, 1984, vol.III, p.269, refers to this instrument as one of a type of extended-compass double manual harpsichords, which Ruckers made especially for the French market. Op.cit. p.272, where this instrument is listed as (c) 1627, notes that the harpsichord underwent 'petit revalement' whereby the original compass of the lower keyboard, GG-d3, was aligned with the upper to give the present uniform compass of both keyboards in accordance with the 18th Century practice of rebuilding the case and keyboard while leaving the soundboard unaltered.
The jacks of this instrument have been replaced.