Madison Early Music Festival

"L'Arpicordo of Renaissance Venice" – Ian Pritchard, musicologist and historical keyboardist. Although not a household name today, the arpicordo was one of the more common domestic keyboard instruments in Venice in the late Renaissance. The notion that the arpicordo enjoyed a high level of popularity is supported by its frequent appearance in domestic inventories, the amount of repertoire explicitly designated for it, and by the sheer number of instruments that survive today.