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THE PARIS WORKSHOPEarly Keyboard Instruments for professional and amateur buildersInstruments à clavier de facture historique pour facteurs professionnels et amateurs |
Our Ruckers Flemish Single Harpsichord has many benefits. It is relatively small, light and easy to move. Its tuning is stable, and the transposing keyboard permits performance with either baroque or modern instruments. We can deliver either the traditional Flemish disposition of 8´+4´, or two unison registers. This style was mostly the result of later builders enlarging the earlier instruments to make them correspond to the demands of the 18th-century. The Ruckers Single is also available with the 2x8´, 1x4´disposition, making it a little more challenging to build and giving it the same soundboard layout, in fact, as the Ruckers Double. The photograph shows the current Ruckers model: The traditional bone keyboard is an option. |
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| Range | 56+1 notes GG–d''', transposable A392/A415/A440 without loss of d''' |
| Disposition | 2x8´ or 8´+4´, buff traditional Flemish registers through the cheek |
| Wood | Case in lime or another similar wood Oak wrestplank Bottom and lid in solid wood Swiss pine soundboard |
| Keyboard | Reverse keyboard with ebony naturals, fruitwood accidentals, pearwood arcades |
| Action | Traditional wooden jacks |
| Assembly | Braces either tongue and grooved, or dovetailed |
| Stand | Turned in oak, dismountable |
| Music desk | In oak |
| Dimensions | Length 205cm • Width 84cm • Depth of case 27cm |
| Weight | about 50kg |
| Instructions | Manual in English, French or German full size paper drawing |
| Level of difficulty | Beginners to Professional |
| Standard version | Version 1, ready for assembly |
| Options | Version 2, case assembled $18430 Version 3, soundboard installed with decorative rose $22140 Version 4, all woodwork completed $24510 Bone-slipped sharps for the reverse keyboard $850 Traditional Flemish keyboard with bone naturals and oak sharps $1140 Three choirs (2x8´, 1x4´, buff) $2200 Stop levers in the keywell (except for the buff) Finishing & decoration materials |
| Price | Standard version 1, ready for assembly $13270 |
| Australian dollar GST-inclusive prices ex Peakhurst effective 1 January 2025. Please enquire for export pricing. Prices and specifications subject to change without notice. |
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| From our series of Ruckers construction pictures: Cutting the moulding for the nameboard |
Sample
page from the Ruckers Single Construction Manual describing this process
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