I like doing decoration and building instruments more than making brassware for you all,
but you keep me so busy I don't have much time for anything else nowadays.
Hence a few pictures to remind you (and me) that there is life away from linishers and buffing wheels
2002: Harpsichord based on N Blanchet 1693, pruned to a short single manual
Just to show what Ref 156 and Ref. 149 look
like on this instrument
A small virginals doesn't have to be plain!!
2004: Re-decoration can be fun as
well..... Design stolen from a
18th century Spanish instrument
I love gold leaf. will anyone let me copy the whole instrument?? It's very
small....
The fully clothed English virginals
Ref25: never lose a propstick again! and Ref5 escutcheon; the double lever
controls 2x8' using the same set of strings.
1989 after N Blanchet 1693...Julian
Rhodes used this for the Croft recording, his last
...
My music stand :
The best....POA
Flemish single manual 1992 and double 1995, both owing a lot to the
Edinburgh 1638 instrument
My soundboards are not usually copies.....
and there's a dodo on most of them
One got into my workshop.........
The
real one is in Oxford (stuffed!)
(The eggs are a bit hard)
Dodo made by Sophie Thompson
and lastly, in Brugges 1995, a
younger Adam Swainson tests his jacks
