Everyone still making harpsichords, and where to find the parts.

Berkeley, California workshop founded in 1975; over 120 new harpsichords built plus a dozen antique restorations. Our inaugural spotlight maker.

Salem, Oregon; building harpsichords and clavichords with traditional materials and methods since 1977 (Italian, French, and North-German Mietke/Zell models).

Portland, Oregon maker and technician of 40+ years, some 70 instruments built — from spinets and virginals to double-manual harpsichords, plus clavichords and fortepianos.

Craig Tomlinson, West Vancouver, BC — harpsichords, virginals, clavichords and fortepianos with virtually every part made in-house since 1984.

Anne Acker: US builder, restorer and dealer, and the North American agent for The Paris Workshop kits.

Pacific Northwest sales, rental and service of historical keyboards, and the exclusive USA sales agent for Craig Tomlinson.

Oregon builder of Italian-style thin-case and other historical harpsichords.

Noted American maker and acoustician; also teaches instrument acoustics and maintenance workshops.

Thomas and Barbara Wolf — harpsichords and fortepianos after historical models.

Texas-based maker of historically styled harpsichords.

Norman Sheppard, Madison, Wisconsin — hand-built harpsichords and fortepianos alongside piano service.

Montreal maker building French- and Flemish-style instruments.

Ontario, Canada — harpsichords after historical models.

Steven Sørli — gut-strung lautenwerke as well as harpsichords.

Chocowinity, NC two-person shop in the Flemish and French traditions since 1985 — and author of The Harpsichord Project eBook (HTTP-only site).

Celebrated American maker; the CBH directory lists the workshop as no longer in business, but the site remains a reference.

Paris (Montreuil) workshop building professional harpsichords, and the parent atelier of The Paris Workshop kit line.

Historic Paris atelier founded by Reinhard von Nagel, long associated with French concert instruments.

Master maker near Heidelberg, Germany, in his own workshop since 1989.

Hückeswagen, Germany — harpsichords, clavichords and fortepianos after historical models.

Long-established Bamberg firm — a pillar of the 20th-century revival — now building historical copies including a Hass double.

German workshop building harpsichords and other historical keyboard instruments.

Maker and leading scholar of Italian harpsichords and virginals, with extensive research on his site.

Bruce Kennedy, American maker in Italy, known for acclaimed Flemish and German concert harpsichords.

Family workshop near Milan designing instruments in the tradition of the masters — and the only maker producing its own strings.

Florence-based maker of harpsichord and early fortepiano replicas used on many recordings.

Prague-based maker of harpsichords and clavichords after historical models.

Czech workshop of three makers building historical keyboard instruments.

Spain-based Dutch maker building Ruckers, French and other historical models.

Belgian workshop famous for historical keyboard copies, including Ruckers, and period-piano projects.

Amsterdam workshop building and restoring harpsichords and fortepianos.

Dutch workshop building harpsichords and the continuo organs widely used by early-music ensembles.

Bexley, Kent — Italian and Ruckers-model instruments, plus hire, servicing and one-day maintenance courses.

British maker of French-style harpsichords.

British maker whose site also hosts a directory of UK makers and technicians.

Long-running Lancaster, England workshop.

Norwich, England maker of harpsichords, spinets and virginals.

Somerset maker and recording harpsichordist, now retired from building, with remaining instruments and recordings for sale.

Builder of Italian-model harpsichords and clavichords on historical lines.

German builder whose site includes documented essays on restoration and the "Bach harpsichord" misattribution.

Jestetten, Germany (est. 1984) — ~2,500 components: wooden jacks, Delrin plectra, strings, tuning pins, tools, keyboards and covers. The field’s one-stop parts house.

US specialist source for harpsichord jacks.

Handmade wooden jacks (cherry/holly or beech/beech, PEEK tongue springs) in left- and right-plucking styles — a hedge against the scarcity of plastic jacks (HTTP-only site).

US broker selling replacement parts and used jacks by Hubbard, Dowd, Zuckermann and others.

Australian technician Carey Beebe’s catalogue of harpsichord parts and accessories.

The benchmark historically accurate iron, brass and copper music wire, drawn in Lewes, England; production continues under Rose’s daughter since his death in 2022 (HTTP-only).

Retail source for small quantities of historical music wire, including Malcolm Rose wire.

About the research-grade "P-wire" historical iron from the University of Waterloo; ordered directly from Birkett, who has no storefront.

New Haven, CT — home of the 1640 Andreas Ruckers single (see The Workshop). Building closed for renovation until Spring 2027; online gallery open.

University of Edinburgh — Ruckers, Taskin and Kirkman/Shudi harpsichords, with an online catalogue.

Online catalogue including the playable 1646 Andreas Ruckers rebuilt by Taskin in 1780.

Twelve Antwerp-built harpsichords and virginals in the city where the Ruckers worked — the second-largest such holding in the world.

Eighteen Ruckers-attributed instruments, searchable via the Carmentis catalogue and MIMO.

Four Ruckers harpsichords and the famous "Bach harpsichord" now attributed to the Harrass workshop.

One of the world’s most important historical keyboard collections, including a 1637 Andreas Ruckers.

Handel’s birthplace museum, holding a 1599 Ruckers — the oldest surviving two-manual Ruckers.

The world’s largest group of composer-associated keyboards (42 pieces), including harpsichords from Zenti to Shudi & Broadwood.

Instrument collection including a Joseph Joannes Couchet harpsichord of Antwerp.

Italian harpsichords, a Hans Ruckers double virginal, and the 1720 Cristofori — the oldest surviving piano.

University of South Dakota museum holding a c.1530 Neapolitan harpsichord billed as the world’s oldest.

Fifty years of Hubbard Harpsichords business records, with an authoritative company history.

Aggregated database giving single-point access to instrument collections worldwide.

A once-great keyboard museum (Kent) closed in 2015–16; fourteen instruments survive as the Burnett Heritage Collection.

Holds the 1521 Jerome of Bologna harpsichord, long reckoned the oldest surviving.

The searchable register of historical harpsichord and clavichord makers and surviving instruments to 1800.