Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Italian Virginal


Taking a break in the Stodart restoration.
Here's an Italian Virginal that I am restoring for the Harpsichord Clearing House.
The process pictured is the reattaching of the soundboard to the upper surface of an internal brace.
To paraphrase the stereotypical used car salesman, "she might not look to pretty right now, but just wait 'til I get 'er up an' running..."