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Hurdy-gurdy
Hurdy-gurdy in lute form (vielle en luth). Six strings. Front gently arched, mahogany, with a C-shaped soundhole each side at tail. Back of twelve ribs of alternate bird’s-eye maple and ?kingwood; no lines between ribs; maple top-block to which ribs are fixed with pairs of pegs. Trompette adjustment peg of ivory with ebony insert; inlaid striking-plate for trompette bridge. Keybox cover, wheel-cover and tailpiece decorated with marquetry in mother-of-pearl and ebony; thirteen naturals and ten accidentals; tangents of fruit-wood, sliders of ?ebony with ivory touch-plates on the accidentals. Keybox lid of ?cherry. All bridges and nuts (except later chanterelle nut) topped with ivory. String and peg for retaining wheel-cover.
- Date:
1742 - Maker:
Varquain - Collection:
Royal College of Music Museum - Inventory number:
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Paris
- Measurements:Length: 772mm. Width: 297.5mm. Depth: 223mm.
- View the original record:http://museumcollections.rcm.ac.uk/collection/Details/collect/1280