. International studio. rcountries only small, portable pentagonal boxesshaped like lecterns were known as virginals. HARP OF BRIAN BOROIMHE (BORU), SAID TO HAVE BEEN MADE FOR BRIAN THE BRAVE IN Kg THE FIRST HALF OF THE ELEVENTH CENTURY (From [he Replica in Metropolitan Museum of Art) the keyboard string instruments,though the Circe at Whitehall stiplucked the guitar lor the Merry Mon-arch, and Louis Quartorze paid vast sumsof money t joueurs du kith de la cham-bre and to those au service des pages,and while the more ambitious mastered thenewly prefected bow, the household instru-ment of the d
. International studio. rcountries only small, portable pentagonal boxesshaped like lecterns were known as virginals. HARP OF BRIAN BOROIMHE (BORU), SAID TO HAVE BEEN MADE FOR BRIAN THE BRAVE IN Kg THE FIRST HALF OF THE ELEVENTH CENTURY (From [he Replica in Metropolitan Museum of Art) the keyboard string instruments,though the Circe at Whitehall stiplucked the guitar lor the Merry Mon-arch, and Louis Quartorze paid vast sumsof money t joueurs du kith de la cham-bre and to those au service des pages,and while the more ambitious mastered thenewly prefected bow, the household instru-ment of the day had become the virginal. Forthis we can trust Pepys observation, writtenduring Londons great fire, in 1666: Riversfull of lighters and boats taking in goods andgood goods swimming in the water and only Iobserved that hardly one lighter or boat inthree that had the goods of a house in, but therewas a pair of virginalsin it. However, long be-fore Pepys and the Res-toration, the virginal orspinet was established. THE DALWAY HARP, ANEARLY IRISH CLARSHECHCOVERED WITH GAELICAND LATIN INSCRIPTIONS {From the MetropolitanMuseum oj Art) three eighty-eight AUGUST 922 mceRnAcioriAL They were all oi the psaltery class and theirprotruding keyboards were protected byfolding hoods on hinges. Whether the key-board of the hydraulic organ known to the Alexandrian Creeks carried its farawajinspiration to the unknown earlj monasticgenius who contrived the key leverage, orwhether the invention developed from thebridge of the pitch measuring monochord, orfrom the peg-stops of the medieval rotta, thenewly evolved principle appears first appliedto the tangent action of the clavichord. The music produced by the clavichordwas of a timid but soulful quality, whichcould be enhanced by endless subtleties oftouch. The profound respect inspired byits celestial tone is reflected in a letter of theyear 1529 addressed to young Elena Bemboby her father, the poet Pietro, who writes: Touching thy request for lea
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