Italian Renaissance Clavichord, ca. 1540
The Italian Renaissance clavichord represents a high point in the early development of string keyboard instruments. Dry vocal tone, early fretting, and a 45 note range of C/E-c''' make this instrument well-suited to literature of the Renaissance and Early-Baroque. The natural cypress case has many delicate moldings. The keyboard is boxwood with ebony sharps and trefoil arcades of boxwood. This instrument is exceptionally light in weight with only 18 strings pairs to tune!
