Finding splendor in the harpsichord

Visions of a harpsichord will, more often than not, place the instrument in an 18th-century drawing room with its player a demure young woman showing off her musical training to impress a suitor.

Harpsichord artist, Joe Gascho, however, is not about to see that noble instrument go the way of powdered wigs and intimate musical salons that existed when both it, and Baroque music, were at the height of their popularity.