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Theodore

 
Robertson  
Harpsichords 

812-935-8016
403 W. Vine St. 
Ellettsvile, IN 47429 

tsrobert@bloomington.in.us

 

Theodore Robertson
Harpsichord Craftsman, Musician, Artist
"Harpsichords In The Style Of The Originals"

All instruments and works of art pictured here were individually crafted by Theodore Robertson.  Please browse through our photo gallery, clicking on a photo for a larger image.  This page may take a minute to load, because of the many pictures present. Some of the details of the large pictures are best viewed by setting your desktop resolution to 1024 x 768. When viewing the large pictures, maximize the window so that you may scroll the larger pictures to observe the exquisite details.   Theodore can also be commissioned for custom instruments, please contact us about this.


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This is the Franco/Flemish harpsichord modeled after Couchet, Antwerp, 1680.

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This is the Franco/Flemish harpsichord modeled after Couchet, Antwerp, 1680.

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Harpsichord after Beniost Stehlin, Paris 1760. Inside the lid are scenes painted in the style of French painter Jean-Honore' Fragonard (1732-1806).

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This is a harpsichord after Beniost Stehlin, Paris 1760.  Inside the lid are scenes painted in the style of French painter Jean-Honore' Fragonard (1732-1806).

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This is the Franco/Flemish harpsichord modeled after Couchet, Antwerp, 1680.  It has a Louis the XIV Cabriolet stand with a blue/green interior and an oil painting in the appropriate style. 

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This is a single manual version of the previously shown Franco/Flemish models above.  It has a range of five octaves FF to f'''.  A transposing keyboard, an elaborate turned stand after French seventeenth century furniture and a lid painting after two originals by Fragonard are combined here for this harpsichord.

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This is another Franco/Flemish harpsichord modeled after Couchet/Blanchet/Taskin, Paris, 1781 with a Louis XVI stand.  It also has Victorian green/floral décor similiar to the present day decoration found on the original now kept in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.  The interior is painted with floral garlands over gold background.

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1745 Dulcken harpsichord 2x8,1x4, lute stop.

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This is a replica of the 1745 double manual Harpsichord by Iohannes Daniel Dulcken. 

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Couchet single with full range (FF to f''') 2x8' buff, transposing keyboard, Louis XVI stand, lid painting. showing matching bench.

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Couchet single with full range (FF to f''') 2x8' buff, transposing keyboard, Louis XVI stand, lid painting. showing soundboard painting.

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This is a single manual Flemish harpsichord with an expanded five octave range after Iohannes Couchet 1680.  The décor shown is typical of early Flemish harpsichords except the owner wanted the inner lid without Latin Mottoes.

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This harpsichord is after Henri Hemsch 1736 with Chinese style decoration.

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This model after Blanchet, Paris, 1758 is with a Louis XVI style stand with finely painted garlands with gold ground on the interior.  The oil painting on the inside of the lid shows a river scene in the style of Aelbert Cuyp, a Dutch artist.

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