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Vancouver Early Music Programme 2012

Saturday morning, August 12, 2012 - from 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Harpsichord Maintenance
& Regulation Workshop

A Hands-On Workshop for Harpsichord Players and Owners

Keyboard players in the Baroque Instrumental Programme will have priority booking, but the workshop will also be open to the general public.

Faculty

Workshop Outline

A hands-on workshop focusing on practical matters, like cutting quills, and rules on regulation, maintenance, climate control etc. Registration will be limited to ten participants.

Registration & Tuition Fees

The Tuition Fee for this Harpsichord Maintenance & Regulation Workshop is Cdn$85 (check today’s exchange rate here).

A reduced combined fee of Cdn$140 (check today’s exchange rate here) applies to those who also participate in the Introductory Dance Workshop with Julie Andrijeski.

Admission is free for harpsichordists participating in the Baroque Programme, but advanced registration is requested as enrolment will be limited. It is recommended that participants register in advance, by contacting our office.

The Faculty

After his successful Harpsichord Regulation, Voicing and Maintenance Workshops in previous summers, Ton Amir’s session this year will focus on more practical matters, like practicing cutting quills. There will also be discussion about some general rules on regulation, maintenance, climate control etc. This workshop will primarily be practical rather than theoretical, and therefore registration will be limited to ten participants. Keyboard players in the Baroque Instrumental Programme will have priority booking, but the workshop will be open to others as well.

Ton Amir

Harpsichord maker Ton Amir started his training in 1982 as an apprentice in the workshop of Joop Klinkhamer in Amsterdam, Holland, which he now leads. An amateur harpsichordist himself, his focus is on keyboards, voicing, regulating and tuning. As a professional tuner he has contributed to recordings for such well known labels as Globe, Verso, Glossa and Wildboar, and as a harpsichord technician he has traveled extensively in Europe and to Japan, Korea, the U.S.A. and Canada, servicing instruments and giving courses on tuning and maintenance.

He also is a sworn Spanish translator and studied Dutch Language and Literature at the University of Amsterdam. He specialized on Baroque Theatre and published several articles on Dutch 17th-century literature and the use of stage machinery in Europe.

He lives in Amsterdam.

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