Jeez!, What A Start!

Seeing the photo in this post by composer and weblogger Fred Himebaugh of The Fredösphere, that is. The instrument depicted is almost an identical twin to the harpsichord I had built for me in 1961 by William Dowd of Boston (Dowd moved to Paris in the '80s, I think). The only difference I can see is that the panels on my instrument were of book-matched walnut where this one has panels of single-panel mahogany, and my instrument had pedal-shifted registers (two 8', one 4', and a lute stop) while this one appears to have hand stops even though I can't see them.

Gads! Like seeing again a long-lost, dearest friend one imagined long dead.

What a curious sensation.