---
title: "Frank Hubbard"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Frank Hubbard"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-07-09T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["William Dowd","historically-informed performance","harpsichord revival vs. historical construction","Three Centuries of Harpsichord Making (1965)"]
---


American harpsichord maker (1920–1976) who co-founded a Boston workshop with [[entity-william-dowd|William Dowd]] in 1949 to build harpsichords on reconstructed historical (Baroque) principles rather than the piano-derived "revival" style then practiced by virtually all professional makers — a reversal credited with driving the "re-revival" of the historical harpsichord. Matters to this vault as the central named actor in its harpsichord craft-history cluster, and as the presumed author of *Three Centuries of Harpsichord Making* (Harvard University Press, 1965), a likely Tier 1 primary source not yet fetched or read.

## References
- [[claim-hubbard-dowd-founded-1949-boston-workshop-on-historical-principles]]