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Objekt 3

Harpsichord by Ioannes Andrea Menegoni, Venice, 1696

Object description

Ioannes Andrea Menegoni (dates unknown)

Venice, 1696, dated

IOANNIS ANDREAE MENEGONI VENETI MDCXCVI.

(brand stamp, front board); Joannis Andreae Menegoni Veneti 1696 (ink, front board inside); Repaired by / Hermann Seÿffarth / instrument maker / in Leipzig-Gohlis / 1902 / (inscription, soundboard inside next to rosette)

Cypress (case, soundboard, etc.); fir, covered with leather on the outside, lid painted with oil paint on the inside (upper case); beech, varnished black (base); brass (strings)

Range C/E - c3 (45 keys, short bass octave); two 8' registers

H. 860 mm (total); H. 185 mm; W. 704 mm; L. 1709 mm (case); stitch dimension 494 mm;, octave dimension 163 mm

Inv. no. 1879.123.

Gift Mr. Barzaghi-Cattaneo, Milan

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