Makers of the harpsichord and clavichord 1440-1840

Abstract

The third edition of Donald H. Boalch's Makers of the Harpsichord and Clavichord, 1440-1840 is a complete revision of the second edition published in 1974. The volume is now divided into two parts. Part I contains biographical details of all known makers, including some 500 not listed previously, and updated entries for more than 400 makers appearing in the second edition. Enlarged (and in some cases extended) descriptions of more than 2,000 surviving instruments by the makers are consigned to Part II, and the whole is complemented by a number of tables, a geographical and chronological conspectus of makers, and a new Index of Technical Terms in seven languages by Dr Andreas H. Roth.

Contents

The Chief Collections containing Early Keyboard Instruments and their Catalogues -- pt. I. Biographies of the Makers -- pt. II. Details of Surviving Instruments by Named Makers -- Geographical and Chronological Conspectus of Makers -- Surviving English Virginals -- Some London Apprentices 1622-1758 -- Index of Technical Terms in Seven Languages / Andreas H. Roth.