Regal in finely carved walnut from the Abbey of Freuenfeld in Switzerland, dated about the end of the 16th century. A reed instrument with keyboard, it was the prototype of the harmonium. Chromolithograph from an illustration by William Gibb from Hipkins' "Musical Instruments, Historic, Rare and Unique," Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh, 1888. Alfred James Hipkins (1826-1903) was an English musicologist who specialized in the history of the pianoforte and other instruments. William Gibb was a master illustrator and chromolithographer and illustrated "The Royal House of Stuart" (1890), "N

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Regal in finely carved walnut from the Abbey of Freuenfeld in Switzerland, dated about the end of the 16th century. A reed instrument with keyboard, it was the prototype of the harmonium. Chromolithograph from an illustration by William Gibb from Hipkins' "Musical Instruments, Historic, Rare and Unique," Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh, 1888. Alfred James Hipkins (1826-1903) was an English musicologist who specialized in the history of the pianoforte and other instruments. William Gibb was a master illustrator and chromolithographer and illustrated "The Royal House of Stuart" (1890), "Naval and Military Trophies" (1896), and others.

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