Clavichord Tuning and Maintenance

Contents

Introduction

PART ONE: TUNING

Chapter 1: First steps in tuning

Chapter 2: Correcting mistuned unisons

Chapter 3: Beats and beat rates

Chapter 4: Correcting octaves

Chapter 5: Theory and history of temperament

Chapter 6: Performing a full tuning

Chapter 7: Temperament-setting techniques

Chapter 8: Fretted clavichords

Chapter 9: Tuning the four-foot strings

 

PART TWO: MAINTENANCE

Chapter 10: Environment and general care

Chapter 11: Replacing broken strings

Chapter 12: Making hitch-pin loops

Chapter 13: Dealing with sticking keys

Chapter 14: Listing

Chapter 15: An introduction to tangent voicing

Chapter 16: Faults aVecting tuning

Chapter 17: Knocks, rattles and squeaks &c

Chapter 18: Overwound strings

 

PART THREE: TUNING SCHEMES

Introduction: how to use the schemes

List of tuning schemes

Key to symbols used in diagrams

Multiple-fretted clavichord schemes

Triple-fretted clavichord schemes

Diatonically fretted clavichord schemes

Unfretted clavichord schemes

 

PART FOUR: REFERENCE

Suppliers of tools, etc.

Fretting ratios

Selective book list

Glossary

 

Index