They are made from solid wood, and very great care is taken in its selection and drying. Our standard casework woods are poplar and chestnut, while cherry and occasionally walnut can be provided to special order. Soundboards are best quality quarter-sawn European spruce. Jacks and registers are beech, with holly or hornbeam jack tongues. 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.