CreatorIoannes Ruckers

Place of OriginAntwerp; Belgium

Date1638

DescriptionIoannes Ruckers did not make a mistake when he failed to align the two keyboards on this harpsichord. At the time the two sets of keys were never expected to be played together. When fashion and music tastes changed, owners upgraded their instruments so they could play two keyboards at the same time. This is the only known example of a seventeenth-century double-keyboard harpsichord that has survived with its original, unaligned keyboards.

TagsHarpsichord; keyboard; Antwerp; Ruckers

Dimensions786 x 269 x 2243

Institutional Link to Objecthttp://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/18129?highlight=4306

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Photographic CreditsDigital Imaging Unit

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