Double manual English dogleg harpsichord in cedarwood

Cedar case, walnut cheeks, silver rose made by John Eve, who disappeared from Cambridge one day in the 70's and has never been heard of since. Some of the parts were made in Michael Thomas' workshop in Notting Hill. Michael was a very loveable man who wheeled and dealed in instruments from his shop in Chiltern Street. He played well too, always with a fag hanging out of his mouth, dropping ash onto the keyboard, squinting through the smoke at the music. Above all he loved harpsichords; he made a serious study of stringing schedules, and wrote sensibly about the restoration of old instruments - see https://www.harpsichord.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/restoration.pdf.
This is my favourite instrument to look at, because of the unpainted wood, but I prefer the shove coupler action (linking the two manuals) of the Hemsch I have now. In this instrument the upper keyboard just lifts a row of jacks with a dogleg; the lower keyboard lifts all three registers, although the dogleg jacks only pluck the strings if the jack guides are engaged in the right position, using the levers attached to the guides. This means that there is greater weight on the lower register keys, and the action is not as light as the French shove coupler mechanism, in which a dog set into the lower keyboard engages/disengages with the underside of the upper keyboard