When Northfielder Jim May laid eyes on the destroyed harpsichord at Laura Maxwell’s house in Red Wing, he wasn’t sure whether ...

Williams College senior Ridgway M. Banks constructed a homemade harpsichord in the cellar of his Cambridge home during vacation periods.

It demonstrates the importance of the string family during the Baroque period, with violins and cellos very prominent in the ensemble. It also features the harpsichord - a keyboard instrument ...

The harpsichord made a short, staccato sound as the strings were plucked inside the instrument. If a Baroque composer wanted a longer sound on the harpsichord, he would have had to add ornaments ...