List of Keyboards 

Photo Credit: Janot Wikicommons

The Lyrachord piano is an extraordinarily rare, one-of-a-kind musical instrument created in the 1840s and 1850s by the Irish inventor Rev. J.R. Cotter and built by Broadwood. It uniquely combines a piano and a harpsichord, featuring exposed vertical strings rising above the keyboard like a harp

Photo Credit: Ridiculopathy Wikicommons

Technical description: Case of linden or poplar, painted on the outside with flowers and conventional ornaments on a gilded ground, the interior ornamented with black scroll tracery on a gilded ground, on a stand with seven legs and lower stretchers carved and gilded; original compass and disposition was FF.GG.AA-c3, single manual, 1x8', 1x4', buff stop, underwent ravalement, probably in the late 17th century, to FF.GG-c3, double manual, 2x8', 1x4', dog-leg, cut-through lute register (plucks longer 8' choir); ivory naturals with gilded fronts, dark-stained accidentals, key frames normal for Ruckers except that key dip is controlled by padding underneath front o keys rather than by overhead rail at the rack; beech jacks with bristle springs and quill plectra, leather-covered slides and guides, registers moved by brass knobs that protrude through the cheek; soundboard decorated with gold arabesques and gilded cast metal rose. Credit  (Douglas Maple 1983)

Altered over time and now too fragile to play

Couchet harpsichord now in the Musée de la Musique in Paris, restored in 2012 to concert-ready status as a "National Treasure,"

Photo Credit: Janot Wikicommons

Two-manual harpsichord 

Image courtesy of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (CC0 Public Domain), via Rijksstudio / Rijksmuseum Collection.

The instrument is not dated, and the date of 1680 comes from the catalogue in the collection. 

Inside the case can be found  the Taskin label: 'PASCAL TASKIN, facteur de Clavecins & Garde des Instrumens (sie) de Musique du Roi, Eleve & successeur de M. BLANCHET,... de la Verrerie, vis-a-vis S. Merry. A PARIS