Charles Wolff Fine Keyboard Instruments

08/11/2025

Not what I would call light summer reading. Impressive and heavy ( both literally and literary).

03/09/2025

Schiedmayer clavichord kit with custom inlays. Nothing is “run of the mill” here. Keep in mind, as I use materials from Europe and Canada, there will be a 250% tarriff for all card carrying fascists. All others may apply for a waiver.

02/03/2025

Beginning February 2025 we are imposing a 100% “fascist tariff” on all instruments and kits. If you are currently a fascist, hope to one day become a fascist, or support fascists in anyway, please find another keyboard builder to work with. We will not support your endeavors while you while actively attempt to destroy America.

11/16/2024

You may think that plastic harpsichord jacks have no place in the modern clavichord/harpsichord builders shop. Not so for me. Here I use old E.Herz “blanks” as mini go bars when gluing on clavichord key tails. They have a good flex and resistance to glue.
Incidentally I still have a good supply of old/new stock of Herz jacks. These have been carefully stored for 30 years. I had thought that they would’ve degraded regardless of use but they appear and behave as if they were made yesterday.

11/15/2024

Gluing up clavichord keyboard panels while the temps have dropped precipitously outside. I give myself a little extra help by warming the joints on the stove. BTW, that blue cup is my coffee not the glue pot.

08/18/2024

Pick your poison.
American Cherry, White Oak, or Mahogany and Satinwood. A couple of babies in Oak and Cherry as well.

06/06/2024

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It’s World String Change Day. Change your strings, CHANGE THEM!

05/01/2024

This “Hubert” style clavichord is just about ready to leave the shop. American Cherry, curly Maple, and a beautiful tone. FYI, the dog stays.

04/29/2022

Spent the early morning glue sizing various oak clavichord pieces. At a point I looked down to see my glue brush in my coffee cup. How long had I been sizing with coffee and drinking glue is anybody’s guess.

04/13/2022

Breaking into a Flitch of spruce that I had prepared (resawn and milled) way back in June of 1990. These are 6mm thick. This brings me back to my first days of clavichord building.

06/11/2020

Bring some great music into your living room tonight

🎶TONIGHT🎶 We’ll be playing a livestream concert on our page tonight Thursday June 11th at 7PM🎶 It’s free! Hope you’ll tune in: facebook.com/thewolffsisters

12/31/2019

Light a candle of remembrance for my friend Robert Byrd 111. Gone just five short years now. His time here was not always easy. Artists often carry a strange and unusual burden. His shoulders were broad enough but the load was more than he should have had to bear. A true genius on both sides of the keyboard. “I feel something that is not of this earth”.