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Regal
A Bible regal, c. 1700, with wooden resonators. When the keyboard and windchest are folded and packed inside the bellows, the instrument has the appearance of a book.
- Date:
circa 1700 - Maker:
Anonymous - Collection:
Royal College of Music Museum - Inventory number:
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unknown
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- Inscriptions:Printed label pasted on the underside of the bellows: "EXHIBITION OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS \ 422 A KIND OF REGAL with vibrating tongues of metal \ (or reeds,) instead of pipes. In a case made in the shape of a book. \ “Of the 15th. C.” \ Lent by Mr. Wyndham S Portal, Malshanger, \ South Kensington, 1872"
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- Repository:Royal College of Music Museum
- Measurements:Case length: 483mm. Keywell span: 643mm.
- View the original record:http://museumcollections.rcm.ac.uk/collection/Details/collect/1285