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"A valuable guide for students and experienced musicians alike."
— Max H. Yount, Early Keyboard Journal, Vol. 20,
2002
"A Guide to the Harpsichord is an invaluable reference manual and history for students of the instrument…highly recommended addition to music history and classical music department reference library collections."
— Wisconsin Bookwatch
"The care, maintenance, and tuning of the instrument are covered here along with a discussion of articulation, ornamentation, repertoire, and performance practice. There's an excellent bibliography for further research."
— Library Journal
, April 1, 2000
"A most comprehensive guide to the harpsichord-
a must for all harpsichord students!"
— Virginia Black, Professor of Harpsichord, Royal Academy of Music, London
1999
"This is in the ‘what you wanted to know but never dared to ask’ category, a clear, simple book for non-experts giving information as clearly as possible so that the enthusiast without the sort of background that most books we review here take for granted can read and learn for themselves."
— Early Music Review
"[A] fine book that addresses the mechanics and building of an instrument, performance, practice, repertory, and the care and maintenance of the harpsichord.
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Aiming at ‘a wide range of music lovers,’ the author writes informally but still explains clearly such intricate concepts as tuning and temperament, ornamentation, and continuo playing."
— S. Glickman, Choice, July/August
1998
"Students of the instrument, whether players, builders or scholars, will find that simply to own this handsome volume will foster a sense of pride in their potential ability.
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Confidently given, its mounting wave of facts and opinions will roll him shoreward to the Lotus land where to read the guide and to dream of owning a keyboard would be to indulge in a pleasant phantasy of mastery of the instrument.
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Wherever she goes, she carries the reader with her.
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Bond’s view on the subject will be of interest to all executants, not just to keyboard players.
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Of practical help to a diversity of people whose lives relate to this alluring yet temperamental instrument."
— Nicholas Williams, The Musical Times, Winter
1998
"She has done very well at the difficult job of presenting an entire field in a well-balanced, comprehensive fashion."
— Scott Patterson, Classical Music Magazine
"(Despite a few problems) All and all, however, this is a fine basic resource book. It is one I would recommend to keyboardists and others wishing to learn the basics of harpsichord playing and harpsichord history."
— Larry Palmer, The American Organist
, February 1, 1999
"Throughout the book there is a clarity of expression and of presentation that is most helpful.
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A very good introduction to the harpsichord."
— The Organ
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