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• - The baroque harpsichord and its music.
  
• - Report of the design and construction of an Italian virginal.
  
• - Free membership. Includes membership information and links.
  
• - Instruments built or rebuilt in France in the 17th and 18th Centuries, known to have survived into the 20th.
  
• - Custom made early keyboard instruments for the musician and collector.
  
• - Information about the instrument in eighteenth century France and the Flemish influence, written by Janet Pierce.
  
• - Questions and answers by American harpsichordist Barbara Cadranel.
  
• - Yann Morin translates important terms.
  
• - Open forum for topics related to harpsichords, clavichords, fortepianos and virginals. Archives and links.
  
• - Use of simple geometry and the local unit of measurement in the design of Italian stringed keyboard instruments.
  
• - Musical analysis of the work, JS Bach information and a controversial view on Bach's choice of instrument.
  
• - The virtual restoration and future exhibition of an instrument built by Vincenzo Sodi in 1782 in Florence. Archive, MP3s and photo gallery.
  
• - To boldly go where no harpsichord has gone before. Humorous site.
  
• - Tutorial on how to apply various different temperaments.
  
• - Article from Continuo Magazine about a double-keyboard harpsichord.
  
• - Parts and supplies for early keyboard instruments and other non-bowed stringed instruments.
  
• - Audio samples of different styles of instruments. Comparisons to other period instruments with similar sound.
  
• - Listening room and education.