Some time ago at a Council Meeting I was asked to do another Paper for this Association. Under this barrage, I did not like to refuse, but knew that I should have very little time for new research. However, there was one thing I have been doing steadily for thirty years or more which I think is possibly unique; and that is to collect English harpsichord music, and to study and play it on the harpsichord. Although my collection is not, and probably never can be complete, it seemed to me that much of the music was so rare, and never heard even on the Third Programme, that a lecture-recital on the subject might stimulate interest. And I thought that I would try and add to that interest by bringing for you to hear two quite different harpsichords.