Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The London International Festival of Early Music: a member of staff demonstrates how to play the EMS Theorbo from the Lute section ...

The harpsichord is the Rolls Royce of keyboards. Dating the late middle ages, it was a status symbol of any aristocratic family during the Renaissance, and by the 1600s harpsichords were being built ...

William Dowd always remembered the first moment he pressed the keys of an old harpsichord while he was studying at Harvard after World War II. The music rose into the room. "I was thrilled by it," he ...

The heyday of the harpsichord ended sometime in the 18th century. But for one enterprising couple here, the instrument has provided an unexpected livelihood, one combining engineering smarts and ...

HOOSICK, N.Y. -- For some of the harpsichords Walter Burr has repaired over the past 30 years, he gathers crow feathers from his own back yard. The quills pluck the strings when a musician presses the ...

WILLIAMSBURG — A new spinet-style harpsichord has been added to the Colonial Williamsburg musical instrument collection, but there is a twist: It’s for sale. Master harpsichord maker Edward Wright and ...