Tuning my Clavichord for Bach's Well-Tempered Keyboard! 

Normally, u have coloured felt underneath the pin, "normally" on c and f, obviously u can add what ever u want, but every C would be red for instance, so u no the pin above C would be D ect ect, it's quite easy when u do it enough

@@Themozartthug My instrument has the names of the various pitches written in next to the tuning pins. I will sometimes give a string a pluck to ensure I am tuning the right one. On some instruments, such as mine, the pins triple up in the baritone section. They are still pairs, but the pairs overlap making it very difficult to follow the pins. I agree if you do this enough, you get used to it. When I my instrument was "alive" I could tune it in about 2 hours from scratch. As Wim said, the clavichord is very stable, and I could do a touch-up tuning in a few minutes. Eventually though, things being to sound a bit sour and it's time to reset everything. My instrument sadly had an unglued and very warped bridge and is currently unplayable. With the bridge only being held down by the strings, it would shift up and down causing strings to pull too high and sometimes break. I didn't know what was causing the breakage until some strings broke in the baritone section. It was only 2 notes, E and F, but that was the pressure needed to keep the lower part of the bridge down where it curved sharply. Before I had a chance to replace the strings, the bridge pulled upwards completely and shattered under the pressure of the remaining strings. When I inspected the bridge and damage, I found that there was almost no glue where the bridge was on the soundboard and on the bridge itself. The only way to repair this now is to replace the bridge and restring. I ended up removing all 122 remaining strings and now in the process of putting a replacement bridge back in as I mentioned in my comment above.

be careful going down that much, it's not very good for the strings. the instrument might be made for 442 too