D R A W I N G S
made by Grant O'Brien
2025 Price List of the Available Drawings
These drawings are printed very accurately to scale in both length and width, to an accuracy of at least 1mm in 1000mm. All of the paper drawings listed below are printed on 80gsm cartridge paper. Should you wish, all of the drawings listed below are now also available printed on 180gsm white Mylar plastic film. Mylar is stable and, unlike paper, changes in size only imperceptibly both with changes in humidity and with a change in temperature. Therefore the dimensions of the drawing will not vary over the time period in which an instrument or a stand is being built. The prices of these drawings reflects the new improved quality of the material used to print them!
Please decide how many of the drawings and in what material you want them, and then e-mail your postal details, along with your order, giving the name, type and number of the drawings that you want to purchase to: grant.obrien@claviantica.com. We will then work out the total cost including postage and packaging, and let you know the account details of where the payment can be made. The drawings will be sent rolled, inside, and protected by a heavy cardboard tube. Along with your order, please let us know where to ship the drawings by giving us your full postal address with all of the necessary details to ensure that the drawings arrive securely.
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Drawing 1a
2380mmx900mm plus keyboards: 2372mmx933mm
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French ravalement of a Flemish Harpsichord of 1617 by Frans van Huffel Main drawing on paper - £165.00 plus P&P Main drawing on stable white Mylar plastic film - £340.00 plus P&P This price includes large colour prints of the soundboard and lid decorations. This instrument drawn here is the finest instrument ever encountered by Grant O'Brien. It has a stunningly beautiful sound and a brilliant 18th-century decoration. The keys have a light touch with a very advantageous balance ratio making the instrument very easy to play. It has 4 registers including a single 4' stop, plus 3 different 8' stops. These provide a wide variety of sound colours, capable both of combining well together, and of a bright contrast between the 2 keyboards. Many musicians who have played the instrument have stated that they, also, have never played a harpsichord with such a beautiful, refined sound, and with such a light, easy-to-play touch. |
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Drawing 1
2320mmx900mm plus keyboards: 1252mmx933mm |
'French' Ruckers Harpsichord The drawing is of an aligned, extended-compass harpsichord with a compass of G1 to d3, and with both manuals at 'normal' pitch R = A415. The drawing includes the main instrument, the lid, the case, the bridge dimensions, the hardware, the soundboard thicknesses, the keyboards, etc. There is everything here that you need here to make an instrument! Main instrument: 2320mm long x900mm wide; keyboards: 1252mmx1020mm Main drawing on paper - £160.62 plus P&P or, main drawing on white Mylar plastic film - £339.17 plus P&P The price includes large colour prints of the soundboard and lid decorations plus Drawing 2 and Drawing 3 in paper copies only. |
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Soundboard decoration of the instrument above. |
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Drawing 2 2009mmx829mm |
Soundboard Decoration of 'French' Ruckers Harpsichord Paper drawing - £29.23 plus P&P White Mylar film plastic drawing - £40.13 plus P&P Sold separately with colour photograph (see Drawing 1) |
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Lid, lid flap and front flap decorations of the harpsichord above for use with Ruckers papers |
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Drawing 3 2670mmx806mm |
Lid, lid flap and front flap Decorations of the 'French' Ruckers Harpsichord Paper drawing - £40.13 plus P&P White Mylar film plastic drawing - £73.74 plus P&P Sold separately from Drawing 1 above. |
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Ruckers spinett-type virginal based on the original kept in the Castello Sforzesco, in Milan. |
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Drawing 4
2540mmx820mm |
Ruckers spinett virginal Paper drawing - £109.73 plus P&P White Mylar film plastic drawing - £222.24 plus P&P Price includes Drawing 5 on paper along with a large colour print of the soundboard decoration |
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Soundboard and
front flap decorations only of the above virginal, for use with
Ruckers
papers
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Drawing 5
1730mm x775mm |
Soundboard and
front flap decorations only of the above virginal, for use with
Ruckers
papers Paper drawing - £29.23 plus P&P White Mylar film plastic drawing - £60.91 plus P&P Sold separately with colour photograph (see Drawing 4) |
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Drawn by Andrea di Maio |
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Drawing 6 2530mmx1030mm |
Polygonal virginal by Dominicus Pisaurensis, Venice, c.1555 Drawing by Andreas di Maio. Drawing dimensions: 2530mm long x x1030mm wide Paper drawing - £112.15 plus P&P Mylar film plastic drawing - £184.51 plus P&P |
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Drawing 7 1240mmx820mm |
Flemish harpsichord stand Paper drawing - £36.60 plus P&P Mylar film plastic drawing - £73.74 plus P&P |
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Drawing 8 1040mmx850mm |
Flemish Table-style Harpsichord Stand Paper drawing -£36.60 plus P&P Mylar film plastic drawing - £73.74 plus P&P |
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Drawing 9 850mmx850mm |
Flemish virginal stand Paper drawing - £34.63 plus P&P Mylar film plastic drawing - £67.91 plus P&P |
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Drawing 10 830mmx700mm |
Italian harpsichord or virginal stand Paper drawing - £48.12 plus P&P Mylar film plastic drawing - £67.91 plus P&P |
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Drawing 11 3000mm long by 850mm wide |
Neapolitan harpsichord Paper drawing - £102.37 plus P&P Mylar film plastic drawing - £172.94 plus P&P In both printed materials these are coloured drawings, with the colours representing the original, historical and modern restored states. Drawing 10 is of the stand made for this instrument when it was restored by Grant O'Brien. There are no photographs or other materials provided. There is no drawing of the separate non-original outer case. |
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Drawing 12 900mm wide by 550mm high |
` Paper drawing - £27.31 plus P&P Mylar film plastic drawing - £45.38 plus P&P |
Catalogue of the drawings available from Grant O'Brien.
How to make your payment for the drawings
Buy a signed copy of my book Ruckers. A harpsichord and virginal building tradition
