WILLIAMSTOWN — It took four years, but Williams College senior Ridgway M. Banks of Cambridge has constructed a harpsichord that would retail for about $6,000. The harpsichord was the forerunner of the ...

Imagine taking 45 years to build a musical instrument. Yes it’s true that Chet Noll started to build his harpsichord in 1980 and finished it last year.

WILLIAMSBURG — A new spinet-style harpsichord has been added to the Colonial Williamsburg musical instrument collection, but there is a twist: It’s for sale. Master harpsichord maker Edward Wright and ...

William Dowd, 86, who revived the 17th-century craft of harpsichord making, building hundreds of historically authentic instruments now used around the world, died of complications from an embolism ...