Harpsichord - Baptism Under Fire

[Clark]

Phil,

You weren't tuning it with the pliers, were you?! @#$#, that would be like those types
tuning pianos with these things...a tuning handle is cheap.

So who made this instrument, how many keyboards, registers, etc.? Wire is obtainable,
but so is knowledge and these things are pretty simple:

Key levers in the middle
Key end pushes up jack
Plectrum plucks string*
Jack drops when key is released, tongue flips back to reseat plectrum
Damper damps

*plectrum length and width is set in voicing, often these break and sometimes they can
be adjusted either with a set-screw or by pushing out the plectrum slightly from the
back. Some jacks are plastic and some are wood, some plectra are delrin, others quill.

end course.

Clark