Harpsichord Collective The Harpsichord Collective was founded by three friends who clubbed together to buy a harpsichord. The group has grown, and specializes in playing baroque music for a mixture of winds, strings and voices. Their performances have ranged from things as small as trio-sonata coffee-concerts up to a full-blown opera – Charpentiers Acteon – with drums, a chorus, small woodland creatures and a bear.