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craft-history

10 notes carry this tag — 1 moc, 7 claims, 1 capture, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  the sound of quill
  essay draft 2026-07-29 · musical-instruments, harpsichord, historically-informed-performance, craft-history, authenticity

Everything else

• The sound, not the substance — how historically-informed harpsichord making reversed the piano-frame 'revival' by reconstructing a result, not a material
  topic map 2026-08-24 · musical-instruments, harpsichord, craft-history, historically-informed-performance, 20th-century
• Hubbard and Dowd adopted a modern synthetic, Delrin, for plectra because it sounded closer to antique quill than the leather then in use
  claim budding Tier 2 2026-07-25 · musical-instruments, harpsichord, craft-history, historically-informed-performance, 20th-century
• Frank Hubbard's historical harpsichord research ran on a Dolmetsch apprenticeship, Hugh Gough's notebooks, and a British Museum reader's card
  claim budding Tier 2 2026-07-25 · musical-instruments, harpsichord, craft-history, historically-informed-performance, 20th-century
• Early-20th-century harpsichord "revival" instruments borrowed piano-derived metal-frame construction
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-22 · musical-instruments, harpsichord, craft-history, historically-informed-performance, 20th-century
• Historically-informed light construction displaced piano-frame construction as the dominant harpsichord-building paradigm by the late 20th century
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-22 · musical-instruments, harpsichord, craft-history, historically-informed-performance, 20th-century
• Frank Hubbard and William Dowd founded a 1949 Boston workshop to rebuild harpsichords on historical rather than piano-derived principles
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-22 · musical-instruments, harpsichord, craft-history, historically-informed-performance, 20th-century
• Wanda Landowska's Pleyel "Grand Modèle de Concert" is the exemplar instrument of the piano-frame harpsichord-revival paradigm
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-22 · musical-instruments, harpsichord, craft-history, historically-informed-performance, 20th-century
• Sourcing the 20th-century harpsichord-revival craft history: piano-frame construction reversed toward Baroque light construction
  capture promoted 2026-07-20 · musical-instruments, harpsichord, craft-history, historically-informed-performance, 20th-century
• "Spline" was a shipbuilder's flexible lofting strip for centuries before it named a mathematical curve
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · splines, naval-architecture, craft-history, etymology, computer-graphics