Byron Schenkman is one of Seattle's best-known and respected musicians, not only as the founding music director of the period orchestra Seattle Baroque, but as a first-rate harpsichordist. He has now ...

When a recording of forgotten music on a forgotten instrument appears on the prestigious ECM label, chances are good that something ear-opening has been exhumed from the graveyard of history. On his ...

Laurette Goldberg, the harpsichordist, teacher and early music pioneer who founded Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and MusicSources, died Sunday of heart failure at Berkeley's Alta Bates Hospital. She ...

Working in his studio, Kevin Fryer listens to CDs of lute and harpsichord music, letting his thoughts sail away to the Dutch masters and places like Antwerp in the 17th century. In a second-story ...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a child prodigy. At the age of 4, he was already playing simple tunes on the keyboard, and at age 5, he was composing his own short pieces. A year later, his ambitious ...

The Telharmonium was revealed to the world in the early 1900s. This extremely heavy (as in, around 210 tons) organ-like instrument utilized electromagnetic generators, which rotated to produce pulses ...

Christopher Grills has a clavichord. And he might be the only person around who can make a claim like that. "I would say this is the only clavichord in Joplin, wouldn't you?" he mused, quite seriously ...

Every instrument made by Micklethwaite's Anthony St John Holbrooke was a labour of love, crafted by hand as testament to his dedication. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, you ...