Ypsilanti is not well known for the building of old-fashioned musical instruments such as the harpsichord and clavichord, but one man from Ypsilanti became famous for his work on such instruments. He ...

Colin Tilney, who has died aged 91, was a bearded English harpsichordist who delighted concert audiences with his virtuoso performances; he was, however, lost to Canada 45 years ago when he took up a ...

Also available electronically as a PDF file or files (requires Adobe Actobat Reader). The harpsichord and the clavichord represent the two most important types of ...

It won't go in Guinness World Records like the 6,346 guitarists who played "Hey Joe" in Wroclaw, Poland, but seeing a harpsichordist perform some Jimi Hendrix in Topeka should still be an amazing feat ...

On an October afternoon in 2005, a little more than a month after I had returned to Ithaca, New York from a two-year sabbatical in Berlin, I lay in my hammock with a copy of the New Yorker. Much to my ...