Italian Renaissance Harpsichord 08

• Copy of a Renaissance harpsichord by Giovanni Antonio Baffo, 1574, with 8′ and 4′ stops and a compass of GG/HH–c”’, based on an original instrument in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. The missing bass end, which had been sawn off on the original, was reconstructed for this copy. The decoration around the keyboard, featuring inlaid ebony and boxwood stringing, gold arabesques and bone beads, as well as the lid painting in the grotesque style, were faithfully modelled on the original.

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