Organist-Choir Director, St. Peter's-on-the-Canal Episcopal Church, Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts Pianist and Harpsichordist -- all-Ravel recital in Fall River in the spring, upcoming programs of Pachelbel's domestic music and the astonishing keyboard music of Baroque Valencia. Piano and harpsichord tuner and technician -- specialising in historical tunings Founder-Director of the Fall River Fipple Fluters, an amateur recorder-playing group, and the Delight Consort, a professional Renaissance and Early Baroque ensemble St. Peter's on the Canal	Renaissance bass recorder by Alec Loretto
"The Muenchkin"! Kevin Spindler copy of the Anonymous c. 1590 clavichord in the Deutsches Museum Munich. Completed 2006!!! Tuned in quarter-comma meantone with split d-shap/ e-flat in all octaves.	Muenchkin at home Add your content here
the Fall River Fipple Fluters at the Fall River Public Library	The Delight Consort, founded in 1992 to commemorate the quincentenary of Columbus' 'Discovery' of America with some real period music and intelligent commentary, sings and plays music of the 14th through tthe 18th centuries on recorders, cornetts, sackbutt, cello, viola, harpsichord, organ and harp. In 2003 it performed music of Thomas D'Urfey in honor of the 200th birthday of Fall River, MA, founded by Durfees. cornett and sackbutt

	The clavichord is the most expressive keyboard instrument ever created. It is the premier instrument for expressing your innermost feelings, for yourself. Pascal, in his Pensees, suggests that 'All the troubles of the world come from being unable to sit alone in a quiet room'; Pascal should have owned a clavichord. It is also the instrument that speaks at the meditative volume level of quiet conversation, among people who know each other well and care about each others' feelings and opinions.
	I especially like to play fretted clavichords; they are the instrument that was the premier at-home instrument for four centuries or so in the Western World. The unfretted clavichord of the 18th century is lovely, there is none lovelier for Mozart or CPE Bach or the wonderful composers of the Bohemian 18th century; but it was a rather short-lived instrument, of importance for perhaps 60 years, mainly in north-central Europe. It is softer than the older instrument and perhaps almost created as a protest as the world got noisier and less connected.
	Triple-Fretted Clavichord by Andreas Hermert after the Jerzy Wojcek 1688 Swedish clavichord Clavichord by Owen Daly after Wroclaw Monastery instructions c. 1470 keyed monochord, built by me
	Upcoming Performances: Fall RIver Heritage State Park, June 10 3:00 Garden of Spiritual Delights, music of 16th and 17th century on Neopolitan Virginals with Labyrinth Walk Boston Early Music Festival, June 13-16, concert of Cabanilles on Clavichord at the Paulist Center, Thursday the 14th at `10; concert of 16th century chant-based music with labyrinth walk at the Paulist Center, Friday the 15th at 3:45 Consort Concert at Heritage State Park Sunday afternoon August 24th, also to be given at an ashram in Millis and in Buzzards Bay, hopefully Magnano Italy, International Clavichord Symposium September 5-8, concert, Music  of Cabanilles Organ Recital, St. Anthony's Church, New Bedford October 7

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