[CAUT] Humidity swings & harpsichord

[Ed Sutton]

Bach's biographer Forkel that Bach tuned his harpsichord every day. This 
gives us some idea of the historic practice, and that harpsichords were not 
allowed to drift far off.

Zuckermann told the Metropolitan Opera that the best way to maintain its 
harpsichord was to give it to someone who would play it every day.

Ed S.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kent Swafford" <kswafford at gmail.com>
To: <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Humidity swings & harpsichord


Kansas City. In recent years I have tried to correct the pitch at least once 
a month through the summer. I only had normal string breakage last summer --  
two or three strings to repair at the beginning of the fall term.

Kent


On Jan 5, 2011, at 1:38 PM, Jonathan Moberg wrote:

> Where are you located Kent? Here in Milwaukee our harpsichords might go up 
> to 200 cents sharp. Often at the end of summer I find 10 or 30 strings 
> broken.