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Scan 106
The Belle Skinner collection of old musical instruments, Holyoke, Massachusetts, 1933
4 lines. Read by computer on 18 September 2026. Printed page 88. See the scan on archive.org.
1references to the lute in the literature of the period and it was pictured constantly in painting and sculpture. Dolmetsch, the authority on old musical instruments and their music, pays this tribute to it: "The lute is known to everybody by name; not, perhaps, because it was popular once upon a time as the best of instruments, for that was four hundred years ago, but because its sweet-sounding name has been persistently used in romance and in poetry, even to this day, to evoke vaguely the pleasant image of some fascinating instrument. The fact is that the lute has become one of the rarest and most precious amongst old instruments." (p. 437).
3Extreme length, 2 ft. 8 3/4 in.; length of body, 1 ft. 5 in.; width of body, 11 in.; depth of body, 6 in.
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