Key levers are lime. Standard keyboards have ebony naturals and arcades, and bone-topped ebony sharps. Harpsichords with Flemish decoration have bone natural keyboards following the historic fashion. A feature of the instruments is the framed panel construction of lids and bases, which is both pleasing to the eye and dimensionally stable. Finished instruments have polished casework as standard, except for moulded and decorated harpsichords which are painted.
Further decoration is possible to special order.
Our aim with our single and double manual harpsichords has been to produce instruments of the type in common use in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the high period of the harpsichord. We have followed the practice of many of the Flemish and French makers of that period, and based our design on the standard small harpsichord made by the Ruckers workshop in Antwerp, enlarging it in compass and registration as they did. Apart from the dimensional and structural changes associated with the enlargement, and the substitution of handstops for the earlier projecting registers, the design closely follows the Ruckers pattern. These instruments have an authentic touch and tone, and are suitable for virtually all the repertoire. Decorated instruments have traditional casework mouldings and paper decoration with lid inscriptions, bone natural keyboards and a turned stand.