The name of Ruckers is as important to early keyboard instruments as Stradivarius is to strings. This book describes in close detail the art and technique of the Ruckers family, who produced harpsichords and virginals throughout a period of over 100 years. Dr O'Brien provides detailed information about the construction and decoration of Ruckers harpsichords and virginals, as well as the numbering, pitch, stringing, and the determination of the original state of their instruments. Like Stradivarius violins, Ruckers instruments were later altered, and the nature and musical significance of these alterations are discussed, as is the influence of the Ruckers style on later building practice. The instruments in their original and altered states are considered in relation to the music of the time and to contemporary performance practice. The text is richly illustrated with diagrams and pictures of original instruments, and with plan-view photographs reproduced at a scale of 1:10. The book also contains a partially illustrated catalogue of authentic and fake instruments, followed by extensive appendices.
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The name of Ruckers is as important to early keyboard instruments as Stradivarius is to strings. This book describes in close detail the art and technique of the Ruckers family, who produced harpsichords and virginals throughout a period of over 100 years.
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Excellent research - a "must read" for students of the Ruckers tradition,
This review is from: Ruckers: A Harpsichord and Virginal Building Tradition (Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs) (Hardcover)
I paid a huge premium for this book which, sadly, is now out of print, and I bought it with a rather limited purpose: to better understand a few instruments that I am considering for purchase. Even for my limited use, it was money well spent. For harpsichordists working with "Ruckers" instruments, I should think this book would be extremely useful, and for anyone involved with building and/or maintaining harpsichords, it is probably indispensable. The world of music is potentially much richer thanks to the years of tenacious research that O'Brien has put into this book.
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keywell flap, keywell braces, soundboard painting, spinett virginal, chromatic bass octave, soundboard painter, hitchpin rail, wrestplank veneer, inside case width, row ofjacks, upper belly rail, petit ravalement, muselar virginal, rows ofjacks, been repinned, treble scalings, keyboard cloths, moulded batten, soundboard decoration, bass scalings, spinett type, buffle register, toolbox flap, transposing harpsichord, grand ravalement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ioannes Ruckers, Andreas Ruckers, Hans Ruckers, Ioannes Couchet, Catalogue of Ruckers, Guild of St Luke, New York, The Hague, Construction of Ruckers, Galpin Society Journal, Balthasar Sylvius, Brussels Museum, North European, Low Countries, Russell Collection, Instrument Museum of the Conservatoire, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, César Snoeck, Raymond Russell, Vleeshuis Museum, Thibault-de Chambure, Pascal Taskin, John Barnes, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Trademarks of Ruckers Browse Sample Pages:
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