LIST OF NEW AND USED KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS FOR SALE
1. (SOLD) Hill Flemish Double Manual Harpsichord Opus 551 made in 2022 and completed in 2024. Built after the 1640 "Ahaus" Ruckers that Leonhardt used in his Froberger recording. It has a FF - f''' compass, 2 x 8’, 1 x 4’, Ebony naturals, Bone topped stained sharps, boxwood arcades, French style coupler, pearwood jacks, wood registers, 4 screw-in legs, simple music desk, with Flemish papers on the interior case, painted and gilded on the exterior and interior lid and molding. It is one of the very last harpsichords I built in my Michigan workshop. Price was $ 47,000 USD.
2. Hill Lautenwerk built in 2011 - Double Manual, 2 x 8’ choirs of gut strings, my opus 441. This instrument has a compass of GG-e’’’, A-415. It began having only one 8’ set of strings with 2 registers of jacks, one plucking close to the nut and the second set plucking the same set of strings but more in the middle of the strings, especially in the treble. Later, the owner of this instrument asked me to add a second set of gut (nylgut) strings and to reset one of the sets of 8’ jacks to work optimally on the new set of gut strings. So now each manual on this lautenwerk has its own set of strings and the jacks to got with it.
The price for this instrument is $49,500 USD
You can hear the next sound file made on my first double manual Lautenwerk, my Opus 331 made in 2000, to compare it with this present lautenwerk in the recording above, that of Opus 441.
3. Hill Italian Single Manual Harpsichord after de Zentis - Opus 475 made in 2015, 2 x 8' in brass, GG - f ''' at A-415 with transposing to A-440, Buff stop, handstops on the wrestplank, Boxwood naturals, Ebony topped sharps, Boxwood arcades, built as a true inner case of Italian Cypress, pearwood jacks, walnut registers, parchment rosette, with walnut music desk. Does not come with an exterior case or stand. Price is $40,000 USD.
4. Hill French Double Manual Harpsichord after Taskin Opus 383 made in 2005. Though built in 2005, I only finished this harpsichord in 2013 by decorating the soundboard, installing and finishing off the action and making a platform stand and music desk for it. It has yet to be painted and gilded. This harpsichord is unique amongst all the instruments I have made because the soundboard I used in it came from a Worel, 6 and one half octave, fortepiano made in 1835. I came to own this piano through a negotiation with a music school that had bought it for their students to help them understand the music of that period on an original fortepiano. However, the instrument sounded completely dead from middle c to the top note in the treble. To correct that problem, I took out the original soundboard, installed a new one and the instrument finally sounded wonderfully full, singing, and powerful in the treble as well as in the bass.
Since there was nothing wrong with the wood in the soundboard, indeed, being split and old, both being serious advantages for sound quality, I was eager to make a harpsichord out of the soundboard. As it turned out, it is perhaps the best harpsichord (meaning: being most like a fine original antique French harpsichord) I have ever made. Price is $69,000 USD. This harpsichord has yet to be gessoed, painted and gilded. Since doing that work in my present situation is not possible, I am offering to reduce the price of this instrument by 15% to $58,500.00, so whomever buys the instrument can have the gessoing, painting and decorating done by someone else.
5. Fortepiano after Cristofori, Opus 444 made in 2012. I made this instrument to show at the Boston Early Music Festival. This instrument will be my last fortepiano. One of the interesting peculiarities of the Cristofori type brass strung fortepianos is that they are pure, sweet and strong sounding, which makes them useful for playing the entire body of harpsichord literature as well as all piano music that will fit on its FF - g''' compass, as you will hear from the few recordings made when I was testing microphones and the Zoom recorder. Iron strung Viennese fortepianos tend to not sound so pure nor as sweet. Another curious feature of my double brass strung pianos is that they are amazingly stable in tuning.
Double strung completely in Brass music wire, this fortepiano is equipped with a true "una chorda" that is activated by manually shifting the keyboard from left to right. The dampers are made to lift with a knee lever. This is one of the few pianos that I have made that I have had in my possession since it was made. Price is $40,000 USD.
6. Harpsichord after the Colmar Ruckers, Opus 486, made in 2016. A double manual compass of GG (no GG#)- d''', and transposes to 440, has 2 x 8' registers, 1 x 4' register, Buff stop with the handstop in keywell, Pear wood jacks, ebony naturals, bone topped sharps, boxwood arcades, beechwood registers, Flemish soundboard decoration, antique style music desk, and double frame platform stand. Pictured below with a sound sample performed by Mark Edwards. Price is $ 54,000 USD. It was my intension for this instrument is to decorate the lid with a landscape painting in the style of Watteau. However, I can no longer decorate my instruments due to tremor in my right hand.
Professor Mark Edwards playing opus 486 made after the 1624 colmar Ruckers on october 3, 2016 at the Oberlin conservatory in oberlin, ohio.
