I love this album. Biggs is the Master and he plays these Italian composers to perfection. Sure would like to find the whole album. Out of print now. :-) ~~~PEACE & LOVE~~~
Excellent playing, E. Power Biggs. Perhaps a little bit too metallic of a sound for me...Even though not as sonorous as this one, a true wooden instrument is more enjoyable to me.
This one had a soundboard of anodized aluminium and channel brass bridges. The later instruments of John Challis were incredibly stable, but they sound, well, metallic! And given the sheer inconvenience of tuning this kind of pedal harpsichord (the upper instrument needed to be lifted off in order to access the tuning pins for the pedal, one can sympathise with wanting maximum stability!
