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A special loan exhibition of musical instruments, manuscripts, books, portraits, and other mementoes of music and musicians, formed to commemorate the tercentenary of the granting by King James I of a charter of incorporation to the Worshipful company of musicians in 1604 .., 1904
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1Special Case containing Instruments.
3Lent by the Victoria and Albert Museum.
51043. Quinterna or Chiterna.—Tortoise-shell, incrusted with mythologic subjects in ivory and set with precious stones. Made by Joachim Tielke, Hamburg—German. Dated 1539.
71044. Pandurina.—Beechwood, carved with strap and foliage work, having in the centre a group of Juno, Diana, and Venus; on the back of the tuning-board is the head of Medusa in relief.—French, about 1570.
91045. Violin and Bow.—Wood, the back carved with scroll work, and the Royal shield of Great Britain and Ireland, with supporters, said to have belonged to James I. Early 17th century.
111046. Chittarone.—A large Roman Theobo, inlaid with various woods and ivory, and furnished with three ornamental sound holes. It has two sets of tuning pegs for the eight steel bass strings, and the twelve catgut strings respectively. Made by Bueckenburg in Rome anno 1614—Italian.
131047. Violo di Barone; or Baryton with bow. The neck of carved and pierced boxwood terminating in a figure of Apollo playing the Lyre. The principal finger-board of ivory engraved and inlaid with ebony and tortoise-shell, with figures of Jupiter and Juno, and a Lady playing a Lute; the second finger-board also of pierced and engraved ivory; four catgut and fourteen metal sympathetic strings and double wrest. By Jaques Sainpra of Berlin. Said to have belonged to Guanz, music-master of Frederick the Great. German. 17th century.
151048. Virginal; formerly belonging to Queen Elizabeth. Cedarwood, the interior decorated with a band of arabesque painted in carmine and blue on a gold ground, and the front with panels of similar ornament, having also on the left the royal arms of Queen Elizabeth, and on the right a dove, crowned, holding a sceptre, and standing on a root of an oak tree. There are fifty keys with jacks and quills, thirty of them mounted with ebony, with stamped and gilt ornament on the ends, and the rest inlaid with silver, ivory, and various kinds of wood. The outer case is deal, covered with crimson velvet and lined with yellow silk, fitted with three engraved and gilt locked plates, and inside of the rising flaps ornamented with flowers and tendrils in gold on a gold-sprinkled black ground. This instrument is described in the "Gentleman's Magazine" for 1815 as having been sold about the year 1803 at Lord Spencer Chichester's sale at Fishwick, Staffordshire. It was purchased by the late owner about 1842, from a person who stated that it came from Fishwick. Italian. Second half of 16th century.
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