The London International Festival of Early Music: a member of staff demonstrates how to play the EMS Theorbo from the Lute section, worth £2,150 - Belinda Jiao Leaving aside the mass-market for school ...

The audience was small. The slight keyboard instrument painted green on the stage wasn’t imposing. Beyond the first few rows of Walt Disney Concert Hall Wednesday, the delicate sound it made was faint ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — It took four years, but Williams College senior Ridgway M. Banks of Cambridge has constructed a harpsichord that would retail for about $6,000. The harpsichord was the forerunner of the ...

Bach and the Bee Gees are not often mentioned in the same sentence, much less played on the same instrument -- especially one with such strong early-music associations as the harpsichord. But ...

LONDON — Mahan Esfahani is a musician on a mission. “Until the harpsichord has the presence that any other mainstream instrument has, my work isn’t done,” he said. Born in Tehran, raised in the United ...

One musician is determined to shake off the harpsichord’s antiquity and bring it front and centre in contemporary music. Mahan Esfahani, born in Iran, raised in the US and now resident in the Czech ...

WILLIAMSBURG — A new spinet-style harpsichord has been added to the Colonial Williamsburg musical instrument collection, but there is a twist: It’s for sale. Master harpsichord maker Edward Wright and ...

To those who think they’re too old to build a career doing what they really love, harpsichordist James Nicolson enthusiastically offered his life as an example that it’s never too late. He was 4 when ...

"Well, my dad tried teaching me, and that didn't work," she said. Now she plays three instruments. "I play violin and piano and harpsichord," she said. Yes, harpsichord. "I like that it's different.

Harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani performs a recital at the Walt Disney Concert Hall Wednesday. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times) The audience was small. The slight keyboard instrument painted green ...