Instrument Pictures & Details - John Kilpatrick

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Martin Baritone Saxophone
(1934 Handcraft model)

Besson Contrabass Clarinet
in the Bate Collection

Amati Full Boehm Clarinet
model ACL 615

Amati Low-C Bass Clarinet
model ACL 692

Leblanc Contrabass Clarinet and 
Contrabass & Bass Clarinet Stand
Model 340; K&M 15045 + mods

Instruments made by John Kilpatrick
(clavichords, spinets, virginals,harpsichords)

Storrs Triangular Spinet
(a small kit instrument)

Steel Drum
(a low-C tenor pan from Gill's Steelpan Shop, Trinidad)

John Kilpatrick's Home Page
and links to choral music

Instruments I've made
I added this section in 2010, but haven't put up much detail yet; and my records are also rather flaky.
Apart from one, all these instruments were made from kits, either Zuckerman or John Storrs.
Pictures, where available: click on the miniature (all pics scanned at rather low resolution - may improve later).

No 1 Storrs Clavichord in Walnut
(in private possession in Sheffield)
1975
No 2 Zuckerman Flemish V Harpsichord 1976
No 3 Zuckerman Flemish VI Harpsichord 1978
No 4 Zuckerman Fretted Clavichord 1979
No 5 Zuckerman Flemish VIII Harpsichord
(in private possession in Staffordshire)
1978  
No 6 Zuckerman Italian Virginal
(known to have been sold on by original owner)
1979
No 7 Zuckerman Flemish VIII Harpsichord 1980
No 8 Storrs 2-manual Harpsichord
(kept by me for a while, later sold through Early Music Shop, thought now to be in Japan)
1981
No 9 Zuckerman Italian Virginal V
(in private possession in Sheffield)
1981  
No 10 Zuckerman English Bentside Spinet 1981/2  
No 11 Storrs Bentside Spinet
(in private possession in Leicestershire)
1982  
No 12 Own design Unfretted Clavichord
(in my possession) 
c.1985
No 13 Completion of part-finished Storrs 2-manual Harpsichord
(destroyed in 1996 in a school arson attack)
The number 13 is a later allocation!!
1986  
No 14 Storrs 2-manual Harpsichord
(in my possession)
1991

Will I make any more? the last one took me about 5 years elapsed time, for a mere
400-450 hours work, so I'd guessed not .... until I was offered a part-made (case assembled)
Storrs bentside spinet kit, which is now in somewhat laconic progress.

Repairs & overhauls
INFORMATION TO FOLLOW (maybe)

John Kilpatrick