Claviarte BV - Historical Keyboard Instruments Hire

Concert hire, repairs, restoration and tuning of
​historical keyboard instruments
(Organs, Harpsichords, Fortepianos, Virginals & Spinets)

Hire Keyboard Instruments

You want to hire a harpsichord, fortepiano, chest organ for your concerts or recordings? Performers often have very specific wishes regarding the style. We have a wide range of instruments (Italian, Flemish, French, German, early or late style, single & double manual, in all kind of pitches)

Tuning of instruments

Do you organize a concert using your own instrument(s) and you want to call on a professional tuner? Even then you have come to the right place.

Repair harpsichord, virginal, spinet

Not only our own hire instruments are kept in top condition...
​Claviarte is also responsible for overhauling your harpsichord!
Does your instrument need an update, a thorough cleaning, a check of the mechanism, replacement of the quills and / or strings? Or is there more to it, such as a crack in the vocal bottom? Please call Claviarte!

Expertise & research

Recent revisions & revoicings of world famous harpsichords:
  • Mattia di Gand 1685 (Tagliavini collection, Bologna)
  • Ioannes Couchet 1646 (MIM Brussels)
  • Joannes Daniël Dulcken 1747 (Museum Vleeshuis Antwerp)
  • French anon. 1650 double manual (Collection Robert Kohnen)