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Single Manual Harpsichord by Perkins & Gotto after Thomas Barton, 1709 (Previously Owned)

Original price £6,995.00 - Original price £6,995.00
Original price
£6,995.00
£6,995.00 - £6,995.00
Current price £6,995.00
SKU PO1295S
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PO Ref. PO1295S

Single Manual Harpsichord by Perkins & Gotto after Thomas Barton, 1709 (Previously Owned) in excellent condition with folding tripod stand. Fully serviced, re-strung and regularly tuned by our keyboard technician, Richard Taylor.

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This rare single manual harpsichord from a kit by Perkins & Gotto of Norwich, after Thomas Barton 1709, was specially-built for Harrogate College in 1980. The majority of the instrument's manufacture was carried out by Gotto & Perkins, except for the fitting of wrestpins, as well as the stringing and tuning upon completion of the kit. Tuning hammer and stringing schedule included.

Disposition 2x8', buff stop, Flemish registers (via stops)
Range 59 notes: G1–D6
Dimensions length 205cm; width 86cm; depth of case 28cm; height of keyboard from floor 71cm
Weight approx. 50kg
Action conventional keyboard with pearwood naturals, black sharps and pearwood arcades; delrin jacks
Wood case in tulipwood; oak wrestplank; bottom and lid in solid wood; spruce soundboard
Assembly braces tongue and grooved or dovetailed
Stand dismountable
Music Desk dismountable

 

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