Triple-Fretted Clavichord by Richard Taylor

Clavichord by Richard Taylor, 2011. One of five of this design made by Richard Taylor.

“Mine is working as beautifully as ever, thank you”
Steven Devine

This clavichord is a copy of a 1620 South Netherlands instrument, once property of late Dr. Roger Mirrey, and now in the Russell Collection, Edinburgh.

Music at the time did not require F sharp and G sharp in the bass, and organ builders saved expensive pipe and action work by leaving them out. Makers of other keyboard instruments followed suit and this clavichord is tuned with a shortened bass octave.

The Fretting means that the temperament is built-in by the tangent positions, but can be altered by tangent adjustment. Presently set at Meantone.

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