Polygonal Spinet
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POLYGONAL SPINET (modern denomination: virginal pentagonal) Is a virginal built according to the Italian school in the Veneto in 1632. 

AUTHOR: according to Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini and John Henry go der Meer that are respectively owner  and curator of the collection that carries the name

from the first one who is also professor of organ and key in the university of Bologna, the author should be Francesco Poggio but is signed, supposedly

Latinized as was usual at the time, Francescus Pogizio Venetus 1632.

 CHARACTERISTIC: a manual with base of eight feet with a play of cords and

extension Do-fa3 with eighth cuts.  DIMENSIONS: Long: 148,5 cm.  Wide: 51 cm.  High: 20,5 cm. 

COMPLEMENTS: external box of pine painted according tothe style XVIII because of instruments, flowers and birds, with cover painted internally to the original style of the instrument with a scene with nymphs and shield of the family Médici and craft hardware,

WOODS: harmonic Board, sides and moldings of ciprés, bridges and pins of walnut, fund and structure of pine.   

Spanish: ESPINETA.  Italian: SPINETTA.  English: SPINET.  German: SPINETT.  French: EPINETTE.  Flamenco: SPINET. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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