Ital. Harpsichord after F. Neri da Ravenna 1693, 2 x 8‘, GG - e3, 3 x transp. 2360 mm, waxed, on stands
According to an anonymous Italian harpsichord (Francesco Neri da Rimini?), anonymous approx. 1692 (cembalo da camera)
It's a big harpsichord of the Venice style, now hosted in the Smithsonian collection. Because of the stringing and measurements it has much similarity with the Opus 10 of Francesco Neri (a Domenican monk in Rimini) which is in a depot in Kolodeje nod Luzuici in the Czech Republic. The instrument of the Smithsonian collection and also the rebuildings are very brilliant in sound. They belong to the "Cembalo da camera" type with their both 8’ registers and the astonishing big ambitus (GG-d''').
The mechanic of Francesco Neri's Opus 10 of has been changed several times: the first radical change was the removal of the harpsichord mechanic. It was replaced by free flying tangents - gided in slides - from wood which had a piece of brass wire on top. As the height of the instruments were not very high, the speeding up possibilities for the tangents with their little mass were very restricted and so the pianoforte effect was not very impressive. So there was a second reconstruciton about 1702 to a clavichord. In this condition the instrument is at present.
The rebuilding of this instrument tries to not give up one of this both possibilities: harpsichord playing with the jack mechanic and also the dynamic tangent playing is possible.
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