Italian spinet after a model in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, so-called Queen Elizabeth Virginal (ca. 1570), 8′, a’= 415 Hz, thin-walled in a case.
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Polygonal italian spinet after Dominicus Pisaurensis (1540), compass C/E–f”’, pitch a’=440 Hz, with wooden inlaid work, carvings and leg pearls after an instrument in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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Polygonal spinet after Dominicus Pisaurensis (1540) with reduced compass C/E – c”’, 8′, with brass strings, pitch a’=440 Hz. The thin-walled instrument is of cypress with elaborate mouldings and is inserted into an outer case. It weighs only 8,4 kg (without case) and can therefore be easily transported. Due to its full, rich sound it can also be used as a continuo instrument.
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Italian Renaissance harpsichord based on an anonymous model in the German National Museum in Nuremberg, thin-walled maple body with elaborate profiles, range C/E–cc”’, 8′, 4′ with split upper keys and F sharp and G sharp in the bass, brass scale, pitch A=440 Hz.
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Italian harpsichord after Alessandro Trasuntino (1531), thin-walled case of cypress, inserted into an outer case, 8′ and 4′, compass C/E-f”’, a’=392 Hz.
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Italian Renaissance harpsichord, anonymous, replica after an instrument in the Germanic National Museum Nuremberg, thin-walled case of cypress, compass C/E-c”’, with split top keys Dis/Es and Gis/As, one 8′ stop with brass scale, pitch a’=440 Hz.
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Harpsichord after Alessandro Trasuntino (1531), thin-cased, with a 8′ and a 4′, compass according to customer: C, D – d”’, iron scale, double transposing 415 Hz, 440 Hz, 466 Hz (original was C/E – f”’).
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Italian Renaissance harpsichord, anonymous, replica after an instrument in the Germanic National Museum Nuremberg, thin-walled case of cypress, iron scale, compass C/E-c”’, with an 8′ stop, pitch a’=440 Hz.
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