Greetings, dear readers. I just wanted to post a note about our progress. We've acquired a Hubbard English Spinet kit based on a 1765 Baker Harris instrument. It's a well-known kit with many fine examples playing beautiful music in the wild.
I will not report on the spinet kit build here. Please know that we are working to get that instrument completed, including making a new pine bottom (rather than the plywood that comes with the kit), as well as new registers and jacks. The work is progressing nicely.
We have also moved Tortuga Early Instruments Worldwide Headquarters to a new location in lovely Longview, Washington. This move scaled the workspace up from 150 sq. ft. to 1,650 sq. ft. Ironically, it's almost too much space, but we're weathering that storm nicely and will be back in full production mode by the end of October, 2022.
Once the spinet kit is completed, we will return to this project and continue the updates.
Until next time...
