Hobart ✈ Sydney on QANTAS Boeing 717-200, 647 miles, 2hr 10min.

Everything returning home to roost & filling my front room again: Fortepiano back from 15 Opera Australia performances; Ruckers Double & Continuo Organ back from Australian Chamber Orchestra tour…

First time working with Omega Ensemble & @TheAustVoices today, using Continuo Organ for their "Eternal Requiems" program City Recital Hall tonight. omegaensemble.com.au/events/eternal…

Bedtime reading sufficient for several nights in this new arrival for my library: Bowett's "Woods in British Furniture Making 1400–1900 — An Illustrated Historical Survey"

Sydney's new HIP opera company, Ensemble Polyphème debuts with three performances of Handel's "Acis & Galatea" this w/e. ensemblepolypheme.com/performances

There's so few harpsichords in the Arab-speaking world: Welcome news via Mondoweiss of a harpsichord making its unlikely way to Palestine. mondoweiss.net/2019/11/a-harp…

Handel wasn't the first or only to make something out of the wonderful myth of Acis & Galatea: Here's jealous Polyphemus casting the stone with which he kills Acis. [Detail, Anon Italian harpsichord lid painting, c1700.]

Something to look forward to: Next Pinchgut Opera offering is Vivaldi’s “Faranace” / @ErinHelyard — 5 performances City Recital Hall from Dec 4. amp.smh.com.au/culture/opera/…

A portrait of 13yr-old Mozart at the harpsichord will be auctioned Nov 27 in Paris by Christie's. christies.com/features/A-rar…

BREAKING NEWS: First harpsichord maker in the world with a fax machine (June 1988) pulls the plug… [My fax line is now deprecated.]

One of my favorite tasks of harpsichord construction: Strings now going on the 2019 Ruckers Double.

Another interesting read just arrived in today's mail from UK: Michael Hannon's "Mrs Findlay's Broadwood Square Piano".

Well, that portrait of young Mozart at the harpsichord sold Christie's Paris for >EUR4 million. christies.com/lotfinder/pain…

Italian harpsichord for Italian Opera: 1990 Grimaldi ready to go for @ErinHelyard to conduct this morning’s Pinchgut Opera general rehearsal of Vivaldi’s “Faranace” City Recital Hall.

Audience pouring into City Recital Hall for Opening Nite Pinchgut Opera “Farnace”, first of five performances. Tois to cast, company, crew, creatives & Orchestra of the Antipodes / @ErinHelyard.

Looks like Zak enjoyed spending his Yr 10 Work Experience week in the harpsichord workshop: Here's the 70s Zuckermann clavichord we reworked the keyboard & restrung.

Second last Pinchgut Opera performance of Vivaldi's "Farnace" today City Recital Hall. In an hour's time, you can listen online ABC Classic. abc.net.au/classic/progra…

What would Sydney summer be without Sydney Philharmonia “Messiah”? This afternoon’s performance with 600 voices will be live-streamed from Sydney Opera House on ABC Classic. abc.net.au/classic/read-a…

Packing up the keyboards at the conclusion of today’s SOLD OUT Sydney Philharmonia Messiah, we say farewell to Sydney Opera House Concert Hall as it will be closed for 2yr refurbishment.

Final concert of 2019 for me is tonight’s SOLD OUT RiverCityVoicesAU Messiah at Parramatta.