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Carey Beebe screening and gilding the nameboard inscription.
Carey Beebe chipping the newly-strung harpsichord to pitch.
Carey Beebe inserting the 8´ hitchpins in the tail hitchpinrail.
Carey Beebe backpinning the 8´ bridge.
Carey Beebe preparing the harpsichord buff stop.
Carey Beebe exploring the bottom octave of a Bentside Spinet with split sharps.
Carey Beebe papering of the case rim of a Flemish-style harpsichord.
Carey Beebe demonstrating oil gilding of the harpsichord case top mouldings.
The second harpsichord soundboard painting by Diana Ford using Australian native flowers and fruits in the style of early Ioannes Ruckers c1620.
Carey Beebe unpacking and setting up the Klop Continuo Organ for a recording session at Sydney’s Studios 301.
Carey Beebe demonstrating how to transpose the Klop Continuo Organ A392/A415/A440/A466.
Carey Beebe demonstrating how to nail and trim the keyend cloth for the upper keyboard.
Carey Beebe inserting & trimming the dampers for the 4´ choir of a French Double Harpsichord.
Time-lapse of Carey Beebe inserting the dampers in the front 8´ jacks of a French Double Harpsichord.
Time-lapse of Carey Beebe gluing the sharps on the keylevers
The full effect of the carving is only seen when all the keys are returned to the frame.
Time-lapse of Carey Beebe carving a key of a new unfretted clavichord.
Carey Beebe demonstrating how to extend the lambstongue on the natural key heads.
Carey Beebe demonstrating how to insert the bridgepins.
Carey Beebe demonstrating how to drill the holes for the bridgepins.
Carey Beebe demonstrating the conversion of the original leather plectra to delrin on a Morley virginal.
Carey Beebe demonstrating the conversion of the original leather plectra to delrin on a de Blaise harpsichord.
Carey Beebe demonstrating the conversion of the original 4´ leather plectra to delrin on a 1974 Goble harpsichord.
Time-lapse of Carey Beebe tuning a harpsichord at the Carmel Bach Festival.
Time-lapse of Carey Beebe stringing a new unfretted clavichord.
Carey Beebe demonstrating top regulation of Hubbard harpsichord jacks.
Carey Beebe demonstrating how to sharpen a cabinet maker's scraper.
Carey Beebe demonstrating how to repair an adrift speaker in the Korg OT-12 tuner.
Carey Beebe demonstrating how to transpose the keyboard from A392 to A415 to A440.
Carey Beebe demonstrating how to transpose a double-keyboard harpsichord
from A392 to A415 to A440 and back again.
An interesting harpsichord repair undertaken in the field to return a harpsichord to playing condition.
Carey Beebe replacing a bent gap spacer on a harpsichord in Taiwan.
Carey Beebe demonstrating how to repair a hairline crack in a harpsichord soundboard.
Carey Beebe demonstrating how to dust a harpsichord soundboard.
Carey Beebe demonstrating ornamental key carving suitable for a small clavichord.
Carey Beebe demonstrating the action of the Unfretted Clavichord.
Carey Beebe demonstrating the action of the Double-fretted Clavichord.
Carey Beebe demonstrating tongue installation in the simple wooden jacks.
Time-lapse of Carey Beebe applying the first coat of color to a French Double Harpsichord.
Carey Beebe demonstrating hand painting on a harpsichord lid flap.
Carey Beebe demonstrating four easy ways—intentional or not—guaranteed to break a harpsichord string.
A remake of an earlier movie showing Carey Beebe winding a harpsichord string hitchpin loop from a different angle.
Carey Beebe demonstrating winding a harpsichord string hitchpin loop.
Carey Beebe demonstrating string winding on an historic tuning pin.
Carey Beebe demonstrating how to replace a tongue in the Zuckermann brown plastic #6 jack.
Carey Beebe demonstrating how to replace and retension a tongue in the Hubbard white plastic jack.
Carey Beebe demonstrating coupling the keyboards on a French Double Harpsichord.
Carey Beebe demonstrating the timing of the pluck (“stagger”).
Carey Beebe demonstrating the English Square Pianoforte double action.
Carey Beebe demonstrating the Viennese fortepiano action.
Carey Beebe demonstrating how to safely extract the action of a Walter-type fortepiano.
Carey Beebe demonstrating how to setup a fortepiano.
Carey Beebe demonstrating replacement of a delrin quill.
Carey Beebe demonstrating replacement of a leather plectrum.
Carey Beebe demonstrating replacement of a boar bristle tongue spring.
Timothy Murray demonstrating how to balance a French Double Harpsichord lower manual key.
Sewing Table with concealed pianoforte, J Lier 1846.
Some more fun with the map facility in iMovie, tracing the route of Carey Beebe’s mid-2010 Harpsichord Maintenance Tour.
Some more fun with the map facility in iMovie, tracing the twenty-five flight sectors of Carey Beebe’s mid-2007 Harpsichord Maintenance Tour.
Just some simple fun with the map facility in iMovie, tracing the seventeen flight sectors of Carey Beebe’s mid-2009 Harpsichord Maintenance Tour.
A quick peek at THE PARIS WORKSHOP exhibit at the 2009 Boston Early Music Festival while an unknown player puts the prototype of the New Italian Virginal kit through its paces.
A silent selection of the covers of recently-issued color catalogs from the venerable house of Sotheby’s.
A lineup on the Sunset Center stage of all the keyboard instruments used during the two week concert season of the 2009 Carmel Bach Festival.
A lineup on the Sunset Center stage of most of the keyboard instruments used during the three week concert season of the 2008 Carmel Bach Festival.
The pagentry of the candlelit banner parade at San Carlos Borroméo de Carmelo Mission, 2008 Carmel Bach Festival.
For several decades, patrons arriving at evening concerts of the Carmel Bach Festival have been greeted by brass music.
The Calliope on the Steamship Natchez, New Orleans.
A silent selection of harpsichords from around the world that have suffered with transit damage, the ravages of climatic extreme, structural failure or neglect.
Can a sequel outshine the original? Another silent selection—but this time of a single instrument.
The jacks collected by Wolfgang Zuckermann from makers around the world for his 1969 book The Modern Harpsichord.
A six minute tour around the harpsichord exhibition room on arrival day (Friday May 1 2009) at the 23rd Early Music Contest in Yamanashi Kofu, Japan.
A quick and somewhat bumpy handheld pan around the harpsichord exhibition room on arrival day at the 21st Early Music Contest in Yamanashi Kofu, Japan.
PRODUCTIONS
Preview of Douglas Mueller’s short documentary on Carey Beebe tuning at the Carmel Bach Festival.
The Sunset Center has been the primary venue for the Carmel Bach Festival for decades but with a major renovation taking place, the 2001 Carmel Bach Festival had to find a new auditorium. The main building at the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey, which was once a luxury hotel, was chosen for the 2001 Carmel Bach Festival. In this story we hear what some people, Jesse Read, musician, Carey Beebe, harpsichord maker and tuner, have to say about how the change in venue affects the sound, the audience, and the musicians. Hear it for yourself in a couple of short excerpts from the program.
Filmed at the 2000 Carmel Bach Festival by Endorphin Productions. Carey Beebe has a fascinating and unusual occupation. He constructs harpsichords and travels the world to events like the Carmel Bach Festival to maintain and tune harpsichords. He tells us about the construction and peculiarities of these instruments as we discover the beauty of the harpsichord.
ABC-Revcom production of Peter Yeldham’s Captain James Cook for the Australian Bicentenary.
Filmed in 1987 in Sydney, using Flemish Single Harpsichord by Carey Beebe 1983 on screen and soundtrack.
Winner, Best one-off drama or mini-series, Penguin Awards, 1988; Runner-up, Drama section, Emmy Awards, 1988.
20 second commercial produced for Hong Kong release with English soundtrack.
Filmed in 1988 in Sydney’s historic Elizabeth Bay House, using Flemish Single Harpsichord by Carey Beebe 1983.
20秒的「帝舵」表電視廣告﹐粵語聲帶﹐香港播映。
1988年在悉尼歷史有名的伊麗莎白灣別墅拍攝﹐應用凱銳‧彼彼1983年制的單鍵法蘭德斯式羽管鍵琴。
30 second commercial produced for Marshall Cavendish Great Composers.
Filmed in 1985, using Fortepiano by D. Jacques Way 1983 and Carey Beebe playing Beethoven the composer.
60 second commercial produced for Australian and New Zealand release of Philips Stereo Video.
Filmed in 1984, using Flemish Single Harpsichord by Carey Beebe 1983 with Carey Beebe on screen.
