Finished Hemsch

Originally the accidentals were bone-covered ebony. I modified them after a few years using the skunk's tail pattern seen here - in ebony and holly. The music desk is of rosewood and comes from an early C19th Broadwood piano which my father dismantled because it was a wreck. He used the music desk as a stand for when he couldn't paint outdoors (i.e. when it was snowing or raining really hard- excess water is a problem for a watercolourist...). The manuals are linked by shove-coupler. There are two 8' registers and one 4' register. The instrument is a transposing one; you may be able to make out an extra bit of wood on each side of the keyboards; removing either allows you to slide the whole keyboard to the left or right (losing one note top or bottom), enabling the keys to operate a semitone higher or lower. The point of this is to allow you to play with other instruments whose pitch cannot be altered. So 'A' can be pitched at 392, 415, or 440Hz. Nameplate covered for anonymity