This is an updated version of the list compiled for the 2008 edition of the BCS International Clavichord Directory
The following is a world-wide list, in alphabetical order, of firms who are believed to supply clavichord kits. We have included kit manufacturers and a selection of local agents and retailers. A local agent may be able to provide help and advice on selecting and completing a kit.
Information about the kits available is given where possible, but this is subject to frequent changes and we strongly recommend you to contact the supplier direct. Most suppliers offer several options: a basic kit of parts, with instructions; the same parts assembled into a fully completed instrument; and various stages in between.
Some points to consider before ordering a kit
Will the finished instrument satisfy your musical requirements? If it has been based on a surviving historical original, what modifications, if any, have been made to enable it to be made by a kit builder? What form do the plan and instructions take? Are they fully detailed, or do they assume prior making experience? To what standard are the parts pre-finished? What form of after-sales service and advice is there? Can you see a completed instrument made by a kit builder?
Kit Suppliers no longer trading
D. H. Bolton and The John Storrs Workshop were included in previous BCS lists, but are no longer in business.
CAREY BEEBE
website: www.hpschd.nu
Agent of the Paris Workshop (see below) for Australasia and the Far East
EARLY MUSIC SHOP
website: www.earlymusicshop.com
This firm no longer manufactures clavichord kits. Agent of the Paris Workshop for UK(see below)
CARL FUDGE
see Charles Wolff, below.
MALCOLM GREENHALGH
e-mail: mdg415@hotmail.com
Agent of the Paris Workshop (see below) for UK and Ireland
THE PARIS WORKSHOP
website: www.theparisworkshop.com
For prices and delivery details, contact one of the agents
(for a world-wide list, see the list of agents on the website).
Two clavichord kits:
1. ‘after J. C. Gerlach 1756’, unfretted, FF–f³
2. ‘after C. G. Hubert’, diatonically fretted C–d³
THE RENAISSANCE WORKSHOP CO. LTD
website: www.renwks.com
One clavichord kit:
Diatonically fretted, C–e³, based on an anonymous instrument c. 1740 in The Hague.
CHARLES WOLFF
website: www.clavichords.com
Successor to Carl Fudge. Three clavichord kits:
1 after anon. German 17th century, fretted, C/E–c³
2 after C. G. Hubert 1782, diatonically fretted, C–g³
3 after J. C. G. Schiedmayer 1796, FF–g³
ZUCKERMANN HARPSICHORDS INTERNATIONAL
website: www.zhi.net
Three clavichord kits:
1 based on an instrument belonging to the King of Sweden,
‘primarily double-fretted’, C/E–c³
2 after C. G. Hubert 1784, diatonically fretted,
C–f³
3 Unfretted, FF–f³, ‘after eighteenth-century Central German models’
updated July 2018