The harpsichord is the Rolls Royce of keyboards. Dating the late middle ages, it was a status symbol of any aristocratic family during the Renaissance, and by the 1600s harpsichords were being built ...

The old world sounds of Mozart, Bach and Vivaldi will trill from a harpsichord that’s making a special guest appearance this weekend in Oakland County. The Symphony of the Lakes, led by music director ...

WASHINGTON — Shortly after retiring from his role as conservator and curator of musical instruments at Colonial Williamsburg, John Watson received an interesting request from the folks at Mount Vernon ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Kenneth Slowik, curator of Musical Instrument Collection at National Museum of American History and artistic director of the Smithsonian Chamber ...

Lovers of J.S. Bach will hear his compositions on the instrument for which he wrote them — the harpsichord — when Trever Stephenson performs at the Colby Barn in Grayslake March 4. Stephenson will ...

Harpsichordist Jory Vinikour's recording "20th Century harpsichord concertos" (Cedille Records). You might think the harpsichord is a mere historic novelty, an outdated baroque cousin of the piano and ...

Anden Houben has spent a career making music he doesn’t play. He was a teenager when he was first introduced to the music of the Baroque period, fueled by public concerts put on by students in the ...

Over the years, New London harpsichord maker Jacob Kaeser has custom-built instruments that were presented as “rather lavish Christmas gifts” worth $20,000 or more. Reflecting hundreds of hours of ...

This is the fourth in a series of posts about appreciating classical music. Catch up on the first three parts of the series here, here and here. Though its name sounds archaic, the harpsichord is a ...

Byron Will smoothes a corner in a harpsichord he's building. A warmer in foreground contains animal skin glue that holds some pieces of the instrument together. (Janet Goetze) has been making ...

Mahan Esfahani says the harpsichord is as relevant today as it was when Bach and Vivaldi were playing it, and his interview with NPR's Robert Siegel this past June left no doubt. It's not every day ...

"The harpsichord is an easy target, isn't it?" Those are the fighting words of Mahan Esfahani, a good-humored harpsichordist who is a proud defender of his instrument. Esfahani sat down to talk with ...