Look closely, and you’ll see a little slit in the tongue. Here’s the front of a jack that faces towards the string. The vertical slot at the top is for a piece of cloth that serves to damp the string when it’s not being plucked. That’s a total of 56, so I only have one to spare. The jacks in that kit are packaged in a plastic-wrapped block, 8 wide and 7 deep: Pressing a key on the virginal, watching the jack ascend and the plectrum pluck the string, and hearing the distinctive harpsichord twang - this is the event I’ve been anticipating even before I recieved the box containing the Zuckermann Troubadour Virginal kit. On the end of the key sits a wooden jack with a plastic plectrum that plucks the string. In a harpsichord, a finger presses a key down and the tail end of the key goes up.
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