Carey is perhaps the most traveled and best-known Australian harpsichord maker.  After earning a degree in music and three performance diplomas, he became more interested in harpsichord construction and trained at the prominent American workshop of D. Jacques Way.  In addition to his skills as a maker with over fifty instruments bearing his name, Carey has gained considerable expertise in the problems of maintaining early keyboard instruments under adverse conditions.  As a result, his services are in constant demand worldwide, ranging from Goroka in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea to the dry cold of the Moscow winter, from Cape Town to Xi’an, from Perth to Puerto Rico and numerous ports between.