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 ...

For more than 50 years, Zuckermann Harpsichords International has been crafting these specialized instruments in Stonington, ...

Byron Will smoothes a corner in a harpsichord he's building. A warmer in foreground contains animal skin glue that holds some pieces of the instrument together. has been making harpsichords, a piano ...

Working in his studio, Kevin Fryer listens to CDs of lute and harpsichord music, letting his thoughts sail away to the Dutch masters and places like Antwerp in the 17th century. In a second-story ...

William Dowd, 86, who revived the 17th-century craft of harpsichord making, building hundreds of historically authentic instruments now used around the world, died of complications from an embolism ...

John Phillips is an imposing giant of a man -- a master craftsman and amateur musician -- with an unusual creative streak. He makes harpsichords modeled on French, Flemish and Italian instruments from ...

For many, the harpsichord conjures images of cobwebbed mansions (The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episodes) or the iconic theme song of the Addams family. Justin Luchinski, harpsichordist and ...

If the period instrument movement of the last half century has taught us anything, it's how to quibble earnestly about questions like: Should Bach's keyboard music be played on a harpsichord or piano?

A replica of a harpsichord owned by George Washington will be played in public for the first time at the Washington Winter Show this weekend. The president’s instrument — made as the piano was ...

"The harpsichord is an easy target, isn't it?" Those are the fighting words of Mahan Esfahani, a good-humored harpsichordist who is a proud defender of his instrument. Esfahani sat down to talk with ...