[CAUT] FW: WiTTmayer Harpsichord

[Conrad Hoffsommer]

I resuscitated a pentagonal spinet one of those (once) and certainly agree with the odd to freakish description.  Somewhere I have pix of those jacks - no I don't want to look.

Quoth the Raven...

Conrad Hoffsommer




From: ed440 at mindspring.com
To: caut at ptg.org
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 19:56:50 -0500
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Willmayer Harpsichord










Zuckermann describes this monster (with a photo) in 
his 1969 book The Modern Harpsichord. It was obsolete even then, and the jacks 
and other mechanisms were odd to freakish. It is a museum piece of sorts, but 
not a useful instrument.
Ed Sutton

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: 
  Don 
  Mannino 
  To: caut at ptg.org 
  Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 7:12 
  PM
  Subject: Re: [CAUT] Willmayer 
  Harpsichord
  

  
  Could it possibly be a 
  Wittmayer?
   
  Don 
  Mannino
   
  
  
  From: caut-bounces at ptg.org 
  [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Rex Roseman
Sent: 
  Friday, December 17, 2010 3:41 PM
To: caut at ptg.org
Subject: [CAUT] 
  Willmayer Harpsichord
   
  Dear 
  list.
   
  I have been asked 
  to evaluate a Willmayer harpsichord for the University and have been stymied 
  in my search for any information about this builder. Has anyone ever heard of 
  this make and/or worked on one.  This one is 2 manual 1X16, 2X8, 1X4 and 
  all registered are controlled only by pedals. Both 8’ stops have buff stops. 
  The super structure is that of pianoforte and not of a harpsichord and it has 
  very old (possibly 1906’s) electronic pick-ups on all the strings with an 
  amplifier and build in speaker. There are controls on the front that I assume 
  are for adjusting the volume of each set of strings. It is obviously not a 
  reproduction but comes from the experimental line of harpsichord making. I was 
  not able to find a serial number. It looks like is strung with all modern 
  steel string and wrapped strings on part of the 16’.
   
  Thanks
   
  Rex 
  Roseman
    		 	   		  
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