From the review of the GOB Ruckers book by Howard Schott ( Music & Letters, Vol. 72, No. 4 (Nov., 1991))
Perhaps one section alone, on the keyboard and action, and their effect on the player (a subject just waiting for an informed doctoral thesis), places this book in a class of its own, not only because of its content, valuable though that is, but also because it illustrates that the approach to this research comes not simply from a technician or musicologist but from a scholar-performer who perceives that the end of all instrument building must be the stimulation of delight - for the intellect, the eye or the ear, or preferably, as is so often the case with Ruckers instruments, all three.
How finely expressed. And so relevant to the Ruckers performance I posted recently.