P'n'J's Baroque Workshop - Initial motion.

Fellow baroquers.

This is a blog I'm making, mostly because I wish that somebody else had made one to make my life easier. I am an avid listener and player of Bach, though on a non-professional level. I have for quite some time contemplated building my own baroque instrument, and after about half a year of reading up on harpsichords, spinets and the like, I have now finally settled for a kit from The Paris Workshop. I will build my own spinet from a kit designed by the Paris Workshopians, hopefully suited to be put together by individuals like myself. I plan to use this blog to let you know all my struggles and thoughts on the whole process, and you can hopefully follow my excitement and frustration all the way to the completion of my own personal Delin Spinet. Again, my main motivation is to give more information for fellow baroqians who are thinking about doing just the same, I could hardly find any tales of fairly unqualified people building such instruments from kits.

One of the major obstacles I met before coming to the ordering of the kit was space. To make a spinet that is 165 by 60 by something, one needs space. A bit more than my room + kitchen could provide me. Luckily a random encounter of a friend of a friend gave me an incredible opportunity. Out of lack of anything else to talk about I asked if this fellow had a small shack in his garden I could make my own cembalo in, to which he responded 'Well. actually, yes'. This fine man also happened to be big on Bach, trying to teach himself the fabulous Chaconne on his guitar. I believe I might have inspired him a bit, and he has now decided to try to build his own baroque lute, and THUS P'n'J's baroque workshop was born. P'n'J's Baroque Workshop will set up shop in Helsinki, Finland, but progress can be followed from anywhere, due to the fantastic lack of borders on this here interweb.

So, that was for a bit of background. I'll post more on where to search for kits and what to think about later.