پِلیل هارپسیکورد شماره سریال ۱۳۹۰۶۴ – ساخته شده به سال ۱۹۰۶ 
بدنه خوش استیل و شیک ساخته شده از چوب ماهون (ماهوگانی) و رزوود (بلسان و اقاقیای بلند) ، ۶ پایه ظریف ، ۶ پدال و دارای دو سیستم دستگاه دستی این ساز را به یک مورد بسیار کمیاب و نادر تبدیل کرده.
این پِلیل هارپسیکورد را می توان به عنوان یکی از نمونه های اولیه “هارپسیکورد مدرن” مشاهده کرد. به عنوان بخشی از کشف دوباره و احیای موسیقی در اوایل سالهای ۱۸۳۰.
Pleyel harpsichord in a refined case of Mahogany and rosewood in a stylish case. Cross banded and quartered inlay standing on 6 reeded turned legs. A two manual instrument having a 6 pedal system.
This Pleyel harpsichord can be seen as the prototype of the ‘modern harpsichord’. It saw the light of day as part of the rediscovery and revival of early music, which began in 1830. The historical concerts in Paris, organized by the Belgian composer, musicologist and music critic François-Joseph Fétis (1784-1871) were a fine example of this renewed interest, which gathered momentum in the second half of the nineteenth century. In the pursuit of originality, it was soon considered important that early music should be played on the appropriate instruments, hence the reconditioning and copying of many early instruments. It is in that spirit that the firm Pleyel constructed its first harpsichord, which it presented at the 1889 World Fair.
This Pleyel harpsichord is not an exact copy of instruments from the renaissance or baroque periods. According to Pleyel, its construction was based on “old theoretical documents” and also on the “study of a large number of seventeenth and eighteenth-century instruments preserved intact in collections, particularly those of master builders like Ruckers, Couchet of Antwerp, Blanchet and Pascal Taskin”. Though its construction was inspired by historic instruments, the sober Mahogany and rosewood veneer of the case is more reminiscent of an early pianoforte. Some described the instrument as a “plectrum piano” rather than as a harpsichord.
