Music and Time Annotation << Back Keyboard Historical Practice: the Problem of an Appropriate Instrument and the Concept of the 17th-century German Harpsichord T. Zenaishvili The paper deals with the problems of historically informed performance of Baroque music for keyboard instruments. Selection of appropriate type of keyboard instrument and its model for early music compositions performance is investigated. Also one of the main goals of the research is to clarify the specific features of 17th-century German harpsichord building least known in Russian musicology. Key words: clavier baroque music, keyboard instruments, German harpsichord, manual, jack Pp. 9–14 E-mail: zenaishvili@hotmail.com