Giuseppe Mondini, harpsichord, cypress, ivory, horn, wood, total: length: 2682 mm; width: 835 mm; height: 213 mm; weight: 30,1 kg (only the instrument), inscribed: on the c3 key: JOSEPH MONDINI IMOLEN. 1701, Keyboard instruments, Ornaments, Flower ornaments, Baroque, This impressive instrument is the longest surviving single-manual harpsichord. Slender and elongated, of great elegance, with a sweeping base and lavish decoration of the case with gilded tendrils, this harpsichord - commissioned by a high church dignitary - is an important work of art of the Italian High Baroque.

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