Keyboard Music: Guide to Research and Resources: Harpsichord

The first complete reference on this important family of keyboard instruments

Covers the history of the instrument, tuning systems, the role of the harpsichord in ensemble, its use in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and includes separate chapters devoted to Domenico Scarlatti, J. S. Bach and Handel

Tells the story of harpsichord pioneers in the words of their apprentices

Integrates available historical evidence and modern physical principles to provide practical quantitative information about the stringing of this instrument