Harpsichord maker runs for anti-immigrant party

Harpsichord maker runs for anti-immigrant party

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norman lebrecht

August 24, 2016

One tends to think of early-instrument craftsmen as organic lefties who live on the vegan side of the political spectrum.

Not in Czechia (formerly the Czech Republic), where one of the country’s leading harpsichord makers is running for the Senate on the ticket of a kick-out-all-immigrants-and-Roma party.

Here’s the man, Petr Sefl.

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This is his company. And this is his party, Dawn of Direct Democracy, linked to the German far-right.

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The Czech harpsichord community is outraged.

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