A Franco-Flemish double-manual harpsichord, originally a 'transposing' harpsichord made in Antwerp in 1617, possibly by Frans van Huffel.  It was given a bass ravalement in Paris in 1750 by François Étienne Blanchet and it was later given a treble ravalement in 1786 by Jacques Barberini and Nicolas Hoffmann.

 

Franco-Flemish harpsichord interior EMBOSSED GILDED JACKRAIL PHOTOGRAPHED WITH A WEB-CAM.

The interior the gilt jackrail used here as an internal brace!!  This is seen here on its top surface which faces towards the treble side of the instrument in its orientation inside the instrument.  This jackrail may have belonged to the instrument when it had a compass of G1/B1 to d3 in its petit ravalement state before 1750. 

 Return to the secion on the eighteenth-century states of this harpsichord