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Flemish One Manual Harpsichord Part
This plan was the basis of a kit produced by B&G Instrument Workshop in the 1970s. It is a full sized plan for a one manual harpsichord in the Flemish style, loosely based on an instrument by Hans Moermans (1584), but extended chromatically AA - f'".
While the general lay-out, scaling and plucking points are in the Flemish tradition, the keyboard, jack guides and bracing shown on the plan and elevation are not.
This plan is for a one manual harpsichord plan in the Flemish style with a scale for c of 13 3/4 and 14 for the two 8. It has a range of AA to f. The scale allows the instrument to be strung in iron wire at modern pitch. The instrument has a 4 and two 8, but can also be built with two 8 only, or with one 4 and one 8. It has a width of 35 and is 74 long and 9 1/4 high, with 1/2 case walls; key spacing is 6 15/32 per octave.
The plan consists of a main scale drawing and a scale elevation. All necessary construction details are explained in 13 details on the same sheet, many of them drawn to full scale.