My interests lie strongly in the Revival Harpsichords of the 20th Century. These are instruments that most harpsichordists would turn their noses up at, due to the many historical flaws. They historical inaccuracies began with the Pleyel Harpsichord, basically a large plucked piano. Built by the Pleyel & Cie company, Paris, at the request of Wanda Landowska - she asked Pleyel to ensure that audiences could hear her harpsichord in poor acoustic settings, and that they could see her hands, they also added pedal stops to allow her to change registrations easily. Pleyel as such based the design on their own pianos. As a consequence these specifications were common on many instruments throughout the first 60 years or so of the 20th Century before builders turned their attention to recreating more historically accurate instruments. However during these years numerous composers wrote pieces for this type of harpsichord,  which frequently do not work on historically accurate instruments. They tend also to have a tone and colour quite unique to the 'historic' harpsichord. Indeed if one plays Bach on a revival harpsichord, it may sound a little unusual, a little strange perhaps. But if one plays Ligeti or Xenaxis on a historic harpsichord, it sounds just plain wrong! It is important for us as musicians to respect and enjoy the revival harpsichord, it is quite a unique and special thing.
The general attitude towards the revival harpsichord, is something I find greatly upsetting. In the 20th century we were given an almost entirely new instrument. An instrument that composers of the day set about to creating beautiful new music for it. As time progressed attitudes changed, and the emphasis was so strongly on the historic reproduction, that the revival style instruments fell completely out of fashion and popularity. They became something of a laughable subject. However ! I feel the instrument has wonderful potentials, not for early music but for new exciting music !
For information on my Revival Harpsichord see the page: My Instrument