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Steven
Becker, photographer
Paul Y. Irvin - Instrument Maker
After years of playing in school and community bands and orchestras,
Paul Irvin was introduced to Bach, Baroque and the harpsichord while studying
in college. Soon after receiving his B.A. in chemistry in 1969, he
built his first harpsichord from a kit. Dissatisfaction with a second
kit caused him to abandon it to begin researching the historical harpsichord.
This study resulted in instruments of his own design, based on historical
principles. Word-of-mouth demand turned his hobby into a career of
custom designing harpsichords and clavichords, a career now in its twenty-third
year.
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