design le monde est petit
engineer Jiri Heger
mastered by Jiri Heger
Harpsichord signed Andreas Ruckers, Antwerp, 1646
Ravalement by Pascal Taskin, Paris, 1780
Collection of the Musée de la Musique, inventory N° E. 979.2.1

Present compass: F’ to f3, 61 notes.
Three sets of strings: 2 x 8’, 1 x 4’.
Four registers : 2 x 8’, 1 x 4’, and 8’ jeu de buffle.
Two keyboards, registration and coupling by knee levers.
Manual lute stop; Jack quills in feather and peau de buffle.
Pitch: a1 = 415 Hz.

Restored at the end of the 19th century by Louis Tomasini and in 1972 by Hubert Bédart.
Equipped with a reproduction of original mechanism (registers and jacks) made by the Von Nagel workshop in 1990.