The Newsletter, published three times a year, offers interesting and informative articles, reviews of recitals, conferences, books and recordings, and news of events in Britain and other European countries. Members also have the option to subscribe through the BCS to the journal Clavichord International, published twice yearly by the Dutch Clavichord Society; and they receive a discount on tickets for the events. The society is preparing a series of publications (including a new edition of our International Clavichord Directory, clavichord music, and a clavichord tutor) and already has a well-stocked mail-order shop for books and CDs - this is open to non-members too.
Since its first meetings in 1994, the British Clavichord Society has included a clavichord recital in all its events. Conferences, lecture-recitals, informal workshops and visits to instrument collections and clavichord-makers are another important part of the programme. They have held four highly successful clavichord weekends at the Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments in Edinburgh, and events linking recitals and talks have taken place in Cambridge, Cardiff, Haslemere, London, Milton Keynes and Oxford.
In line with their aim to share the pleasures of the clavichord more widely, the society visits exhibitions and organizes educational events to introduce the clavichord to students, young people and other musicians as well as BCS members and the general public.
The BCS Bookshop (open to all) aims to help people obtain books, CDs and music which may be difficult for other sources to locate or supply.