. International studio. x varyingsets of strings produced an amazing gradation oftone. For fifty years it stood unsurpassed. In France the menace of Cristoforis littlehammers and the conflict between the growingdemand lor mechanical innovations and thepublics disapproval of awkward proportionsforced the clavecin makers to try technical experi-ments on the models of their great predecessors,whose choice of outline had been found irre-proachable. It is therefore not surprising thatthe illustrious Ruckers family appears in inven-tories of the eighteenth century as the makers ofnumbers of clavecin
. International studio. x varyingsets of strings produced an amazing gradation oftone. For fifty years it stood unsurpassed. In France the menace of Cristoforis littlehammers and the conflict between the growingdemand lor mechanical innovations and thepublics disapproval of awkward proportionsforced the clavecin makers to try technical experi-ments on the models of their great predecessors,whose choice of outline had been found irre-proachable. It is therefore not surprising thatthe illustrious Ruckers family appears in inven-tories of the eighteenth century as the makers ofnumbers of clavecins, refitted with action andkeys and decorations by later hands. The culmination of this constructive revival,unique in art history for its general acceptance bya public proud of its own original achievements,can be found in the sale of a Ruckers-Taskinwhich took place in Paris about 1^-5, whichrealized the stupendous prix damateur of sixthousand two hundred and forty li\ res. august 1922 three ninety-three mceRnAcioriAL. A PANEL IN COLORED ALABASTER AND COLD, ST. MARY S CHURCH, TUXEDO, N. LAWRIE, SCULPTOR Lee Lawrie * Architectural Sculptor
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