Sound Examples

Piano and Harpsichord:

• Piano: (WAV) (MP3)
• Harpsichord 1: (WAV) (MP3)
• Harpsichord 2: (WAV) (MP3)

Stanford Sondius Project
Staccato Systems, Inc.

More Recent Harpsichord:

• Harpsichord Soundboard Hammer-Response: (WAV) (MP3)
• Musical Commuted Harpsichord Example: (WAV) (MP3)

Vesa Välimäki, Henri Penttinen, Jonte Knif, Mikael Laurson, and Cumhur Erkut
``Sound Synthesis of the Harpsichord Using a Computationally Efficient Physical Model'', JASP-2004
http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/publications/papers/jasp-harpsy/ Google search: Harpsichord Sound Synthesis