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Catalogue data

• (4315)
• Double-manual harpsichord.
• 5 octaves, F₁ - F₆ [ F' - f''' ]

• Maker: Pascal Taskin.
• Paris.
• 1769.

• Technical description:
• Data Sheet
• Stringing Data Sheet
• Louis Diémer and the 1769 Taskin harpsichord
• Stringing Scaling Table
• Programme Notes
• Further Photographs
• Drawings

• Painted around rose "PASCAL TASKIN ELEVE DE BLANCHET"; painted on soundboard "1769".

• Specific literature references: Newman and Williams 1988, p.33, 35; Boalch 1995, pp.651-652.
• Illustration references: Newman and Williams 1988, p.32, 34-35.

• Previous ownership: Bought by Raymond Russell in 1952; in 1940 owned by M. Labrousse; in 1920s owned by Martin Asseman; 1897- owned by Mme Alphonse Le Duc; 1882-1897 owned by Emile-Alexandre Taskin, Paris.
• Current ownership: Gift of Mrs Gilbert Russell, 1964
• (Raymond Russell Collection)

References

NEWMAN, S.T.M. and Williams, P.F., 1968. The Russell Collection and other early keyboards in Saint Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

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