(Whoa...it's fun trying to be a purist!) This is a Canadian harpsichord that clearly has a metal frame. Purists prefer nothing but wood framing.
But even E. Power Biggs was happy to do recordings of Bach and Scott Joplin on a lovely harpsichord with an aluminum frame and soundboard. It's 4:38 in the afternoon. Who can be the first to name this famous builder of these harpsichords?
Many years ago I had a priest friend who owned a two-manual Sabathil. Metal frame or not, it was a very inferior harpsichord. I would not recommend it even to a non-purist. I think that its chief selling point was that it was relatively inexpensive. The action was mushy, the tone production was mushy, and the tone itself rather dull and undeveloped, with plectra made of some synthetic stuff being no small contributor to to a very lackluster, rather anemic. sound.
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