David W. Fenton wrote:
On 4 Sep 2009 at 8:17, 73357.3...@compuserve.com wrote:
what about E Power Biggs' pedal harpsichord ?
What about it? Mozart owned a pedal fortepiano, so it wouldn't
surprise me if there were pedal harpsichords at the time. Biggs was a
big promoter of Flentrop, the Dutch maker of tracker organs built on
18th-century models from the Bach era, so I'd doubt that he'd have
picked a harpsichord design that was based on anything other than the
historical instruments.
Of course, our understanding today of the salient characteristics of
those historical instruments has altered greatly as we've learned
much more, so likely an instrument built at that time would not pass
muster with our modern standards for historical recreations.
But I strongly doubt he would have gone for an instrument that wasn't
a real attempt at recreating historical models.
Indeed, the following link:
http://www.hubharp.com/musings_pedalharp.htm discusses the
point that they were quite prevalent during the Baroque.
I got a listing of another site but because the google
search added the warning that it might harm my computer I
didn't visit it:
Baroque German Harpsichord
This site may harm your computer.
A pedal-harpsichord, that is, a harpsichord with an
organ-type pedal-board, would have been found in the home of
most German organists during the baroque ...
www.baroquemusic.org/bargerhpschd.html - Similar
Certainly the start of the quoted blurb seems to indicate
that the people who put the webpage up thought it would have
been common during the Baroque.
--
David H. Bailey
dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com
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