
Menu Home Page Biography Lecture Topics Publications News Links Instruments © 2008, Ed Kottick Privacy Policy	News November, 2007. Once again, I look forward to a busy spring and summer, with meetings of the Southeastern and Midwest Historical Keyboard Societies and the Midwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society. It looks like I'll have to miss the American Musical Instrument Society meeting this year, since my oldest grandson is getting married at that time! The Harpsichord and Clavichord Workshop that Zuckermann Harpsichords sponsored last June, and of which I was a part, was quite successful and we're planning to do it again this summer (in a slightly different format, so as not to repeat ourselves). I'll also be going to Saratoga Springs NY in July, as the visiting scholar for the 49th season of the Festival of Baroque Music. 2007 saw the completion of my 50th harpsichord, a Franco-Flemish double, commissioned by a professor of finance at Northern Iowa University. The American Musical Instrument Society honored me with their Curt Sachs Award in May of 2006, at the Society's 2006 meeting at the National Music Museum in Vermillion, SD. The citation bears the following text: "The Board of Governors of the American Musical Instrument Society records its pleasure in designating Edward L. Kottick the recipient of the 2006 Curt Sachs Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the appreciation of the harpsichord and to the understanding of its historical development, physical characteristics, and acoustical properties through his distinguished work as a scholar, author, lecturer, builder, and designer." Vermillion, South Dakota, May 22, 2006. Signed by Kathryn L. Shanks Libin, President A prototype of the Neapolitan harpsichord I designed for Zuckermann Harpsichords was exhibited in the ZHI room at last summer's Boston Early Musical Festival, and was sold shortly thereafter. The prototype I built in my own shop was also sold. To say that this instrument is "interesting" is putting it mildly, since it is built all of maple, including the soundboard, a typical Neapolitan practice. ZHI has already sold out their first two runs of the Neapolitan. Another design I did recently was the new Hubert double-fretted clavichord (compass C-f 3 chromatic) for kit construction. This instrument is scheduled to go into production soon. Over the past few years I've been creating construction manuals for Zuckermann Harpsichords, building the instruments as I write. I find it challenging and fulfilling work. So far I've done the octave virginal (which I designed), the double-fretted King of Sweden clavichord (which I redesigned), the new Italian virginal, the new five-octave unfretted clavichord, the Hubert clavichord, and the Neapolitan Italian. I recently completed the two Flemish singles (1x8', 1x4' and 2x8'), the Flemish double, and the conversion kits for the old 5' slant side (the original Zuckermann harpsichord), the 6' slant side, and all the early Flemishes. I am also doing technical support for the kit instruments. As always, my shop is busy with repair work, an activity I enjoy immensely. I am also the music director for an Iowa City Community Theater production of the Jerry Bock ("Fiddler on the Roof") musical "She Loves Me." That show goes up in February of 2208. Finally, much to my own amazement, after a hiatus of 42 years, I have started playing the trombone again! You can get some information on my latest book, A History of the Harpsichord, including the Table of Contents, on the IU Press web site.
*Ed Kottick* 502 Larch Lane Iowa City, IA 52245 Phone: 319.337.3770 FAX: 319.337.4595 Email: ed@kottick.com

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November, 2007. Once again, I look forward to a busy spring and summer, with meetings of the Southeastern and Midwest Historical Keyboard Societies and the Midwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society. It looks like I'll have to miss the American Musical Instrument Society meeting this year, since my oldest grandson is getting married at that time! The Harpsichord and Clavichord Workshop that Zuckermann Harpsichords sponsored last June, and of which I was a part, was quite successful and we're planning to do it again this summer (in a slightly different format, so as not to repeat ourselves). I'll also be going to Saratoga Springs NY in July, as the visiting scholar for the 49th season of the Festival of Baroque Music.

2007 saw the completion of my 50th harpsichord, a Franco-Flemish double, commissioned by a professor of finance at Northern Iowa University.

The American Musical Instrument Society honored me with their Curt Sachs Award in May of 2006, at the Society's 2006 meeting at the National Music Museum in Vermillion, SD. The citation bears the following text:

"The Board of Governors of the American Musical Instrument Society records its pleasure in designating Edward L. Kottick the recipient of the 2006 Curt Sachs Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the appreciation of the harpsichord and to the understanding of its historical development, physical characteristics, and acoustical properties through his distinguished work as a scholar, author, lecturer, builder, and designer."
Vermillion, South Dakota, May 22, 2006.
Signed by Kathryn L. Shanks Libin, President

A prototype of the Neapolitan harpsichord I designed for Zuckermann Harpsichords was exhibited in the ZHI room at last summer's Boston Early Musical Festival, and was sold shortly thereafter. The prototype I built in my own shop was also sold. To say that this instrument is "interesting" is putting it mildly, since it is built all of maple, including the soundboard, a typical Neapolitan practice. ZHI has already sold out their first two runs of the Neapolitan.

Another design I did recently was the new Hubert double-fretted clavichord (compass C-f 3 chromatic) for kit construction. This instrument is scheduled to go into production soon.

Over the past few years I've been creating construction manuals for Zuckermann Harpsichords, building the instruments as I write. I find it challenging and fulfilling work. So far I've done the octave virginal (which I designed), the double-fretted King of Sweden clavichord (which I redesigned), the new Italian virginal, the new five-octave unfretted clavichord, the Hubert clavichord, and the Neapolitan Italian. I recently completed the two Flemish singles (1x8', 1x4' and 2x8'), the Flemish double, and the conversion kits for the old 5' slant side (the original Zuckermann harpsichord), the 6' slant side, and all the early Flemishes. I am also doing technical support for the kit instruments.

As always, my shop is busy with repair work, an activity I enjoy immensely.

I am also the music director for an Iowa City Community Theater production of the Jerry Bock ("Fiddler on the Roof") musical "She Loves Me." That show goes up in February of 2208. Finally, much to my own amazement, after a hiatus of 42 years, I have started playing the trombone again!

You can get some information on my latest book, A History of the Harpsichord, including the Table of Contents, on the IU Press web site.

Ed Kottick
502 Larch Lane Iowa City, IA 52245
Phone: 319.337.3770 FAX: 319.337.4595
Email: ed@kottick.com

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