What's Available at MusicSources?
- Rental space for special events — Weddings, performances, lectures, rehearsals, etc.
- Instrument sales and rentals — Harpsichords, clavichords, fortepiano, organ, etc.
- Guided tours of the facility — Instrument collection and history garden for ages five and up (including school groups)
- Teacher Education Program
- Information hotline and teacher referreals — Music before 1850
- Music To-Go — Music for hire for special events
- MusicSources Publications
Space Rental
Rehearsal for Handel's Water Music
with NY-based Aulos Ensemble.
Rental space is available for special events including weddings, performances, lectures, rehearsals, etc.
Instrument Collection
David Van Ness replaces string on
"California Chord".
MusicSources displays a small inclusive keyboard collection representing the last four hundred years:
- Virginals
- Muselaars
- Harpsichords (single & double Italian, Flemish, French)
- Clavichords
- Fortepianos
- Klop Chamber Organ, 17th century copy
- Also a small collection of historic woodwinds and replicas by living builders.
Click on thumbnails to see larger versions of pictures.
Single manual flemish style harpsichord by Sender Fontwit, with a lid painting of the California coast.
Original 17th century anonymous Italian harpsichord, restored by Robert Greenberg, and in the backgound a chamber organ in 17th century style built in Holland by Gerrit Klop.
The MusicSources' performance space, with a flemish style harpsichord by Kevin Fryer, a french harpsichord after Pascal Taskin by John Phillips, and a fortepiano after Walter made in the Czech republic by Paul McNulty.
The MusicSources' dining room, with a "Mother and Child" virginal by David van Ness, and a "Muselaar" style virginal by Thomas and Barbara Wolf.
A detailed view of the "Mother and Child" virginals by David Van Ness. Note that the "child" or octave spinet was built in 1982 by William James Unruh.
The Keith Marcelius History Garden
The History Garden is a garden for today designed with plants and motifs that were used in gardens of earlier times. Almost all the plants in this garden were introduced to European gardens or were known to those gardeners before 1800. Mankind has had gardens for many thousands of years; the first plants used were those that were edible, had medicinal uses or were native to the particular region.