Alan's focus is very much on the Baroque period, and he had a Harpsichord built John Rooks of Ticknall, Derbyshire, based on a 1638 Harpsichord made by Andreas Ruckers.
Skowroneck has built harpsichords, clavichords, spinets and virginals after English, Italian, early (Ruckers) and late Flemish (Dulcken), 17th- and 18th-century French, and German models.
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His harpsichords drew on the Flemish tradition, dominated by Ruckers, whose harpsichords had become extremely prized in the 18th century; he himself owned and hired out two Ruckers harpsichords.