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Wim Winters’s clavichord recording of Johann Pachelbel’s Hexachorum Apollinis (The Six Strings of Apollo), a set of variations composed in 1699, showcases his incredible musicality and keyboard technique in what is perhaps the finest recording ever made of a clavichord.

Winters is the founder of the Authentic Sound YouTube channel that features hundreds of recordings on his Saxon-style unfretted clavichord built by the Belgian instrument builder Joris Potvligehe. 
The clavichord is a notoriously difficult instrument to record accurately. 
Winters, through years of trial and error experimentation (and with the assistance of Grammy Award winning sound engineer Robert Margouleff) has finally figured out how to record the clavichord. 
This analog recording was made on a Studer A80r reel-to-reel tape recorder with two Neumann microphones feeding a Presonus tube preamplifier. 
The result is a recording that captures every detail and nuance of the clavichord’s expressiveness and dynamic range.