The Sassman project
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- In the summer of 2018 we completed a year-long restoration of a Sassman double-manual harpsichord. Sassman was a 1950s builder of revival harpsichords and this particular instrument has a 1x16, 2x8, 1x4 disposition with lute stops on all choirs. It was quite a challenge to make it play again, but here is the result...
This is wonderful. Despite being clunky, the sounds it make have a very wide possibilities like you said.
I wished the 16' on my Ammer double sounded that good. The other stops are fine. The back 8 is so warm, and pleasant.
Awsome sounds..analog!
Revival harpsichords are also marvelous and they must be rediscovered with their incredible sounds. Il est superbe.
Incredible sounds? The soundboard is so hard and thick, the sound of a revival harpsichord is very bad.
Yes, some are worse than others, but that's further complicated by the condition in which many of these instruments are in, now: no two are a like. I've heard some decent revival instruments, but there some that are dreadfull. I can't stand a Pleyel. They all seem to have this "curdled cream" quality to the sound. I don't like Challis instruments, either. I think they are overrated. I own a big Ammer double, that I got for cheap. Not too bad; the bottom 8' choir sounds warm, and pleasant, but the 16' choir is a blubbering mess.
They are bad instruments and look unpleasent
They are good for the oven.
Has its charms... Harp-like?
Some one asked me to check out an 8x4 instrument like that. The 4ft Hitchpin rail had pulled away from the sound board. I told them it was a pointless fix. I told them to take all the 4ft strings off. It would make the 8ft sound better. They offered it to me and I told them I couldn't even use the tuning pins. All of those kind of instruments are junk
One person's "junk" is another person's treasure