The Galpin Society JOURNAL NUMBER LIV May 2001 CONTENTS page Editorial 3 Obituaries E. A. Keane Ridley: EtizABETH WELLS T. K. Dibley: PAULINE HOLDEN Bo:.wood Tongues and Original Leather Plectra in Eighteenth-century English HarpsichordJsO:H N BARNES A Performer’s comparative study of Touchweight, Key-dip, Keyboard Design and Repetition in Early Grad Pianos, c.1770 to 1850: KENNETH Moses The Oldest Harp Maker in the World! Morra BONNINGTON The Early Music Erhu: CoLin HUEHNS Two-Chanter Bagpipes in England: JAMes W. MERRYWEATHER The Gerbier-Windebank Letters: Two Ruckers Harpsichords in England: PAULA Woops The Use and Limitations of aT hree-Point Bore Gauge for Measuring Woodwind Instrument Bores: RONALD BELL AND ADRIAN GREENHAM Pitch in Viols and Harpsichords: NicHoLas MITCHELI A Portuguese Clavichord in Sixteenth-century Japan? MINoruU TAKAHASHI A One-keyed Flute by C. V. Halluw: Susan THOMPSON The Origins and Evolution of Diatonic Fretting in Clavichords: Maria Boxall f Pitch Standards before the Nineteenth Century: M SEGERMAN irement to Meaning: Kevin Dawt Leeds: RAINER WEBER Methods in Stringed Keyboard Instrument Design: \ BIRKETT AND WILLIAM JURGENS tf Surviving Instruments by, or ascribed to, rman: BENJAMIN HEBBERT x Green Marquetry on Bowed-String Instruments: OOTTERSTEDT mpani: Bircit HEIst of Renaissance Keyboard Compass: DAvip KINSELA ce HERBERT W. My ers, JOHN KOSTER he article “Two Elizabethan Virginals?’ by Darryl Martin, Iopf p. 156-167. The ‘Mar’ virginal — further information new X-ray pictures: DARRYL MARTIN the article by John Hunt: ‘Jurors of the Guild of Musical nent Makers ofP aris’. GSJ LI, pp. 110-113. the article by Michael Fleming: ‘Some Points arising Survey of Wills and Inventories’. In GSL LIII, ‘Notes Jueries’, pp. 301-311. Announ ments Pul ations by Members oft he Society Guid lines for Intending Contributors ISSN 0072.0127