".....My reenactment ranges from medieval to cowboy era and everything in
between, so eventually..... "
Oh ! , I guess you are involved in entertainement more than in
historical research . For the F&I period ( seven years war in America for
our europeans friends ) there is but a single documented presence
of a HG , in Louisbourg , Acadia . ( today Nova Scotia ) .
The previous one is related in the 1632 Relations des Jésuites.
There are harpsichord kits available , so there are no technical
reason for the absence of HG kits , but a huge économical and social one
..... nobody yet bought and assembled a harpsichord kit to go busking at a
" Ren Fair " .