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Clavichord
Maker: Robert Goble
Date: 1948
Place Made:Oxford, England, Europe
Serial No: none
SignedInlaid in brass on nameboard: ROBERT * GOBLE * ANNO * MCMXLVIII
Painted in black on hitchpin block: Robert Goble, Oxford, 1948
Painted in black on hitchpin block: Robert Goble, Oxford, 1948
MarkingsInside of lid: MVSICA * L'TITI' * COMES / MEDICINA * DOLORVM
Descriptioncompass AA- e"""(56 notes)
unfretted
soundboard painted by donor's mother (Elizabeth) (maker's wife) with various flowers, including irises and roses in shades of blue, yellow, violet, white, pink and red. Also a horsefly and a butterfly.
square, fluted legs
unfretted
soundboard painted by donor's mother (Elizabeth) (maker's wife) with various flowers, including irises and roses in shades of blue, yellow, violet, white, pink and red. Also a horsefly and a butterfly.
square, fluted legs
ProvenanceMade in 1948 for Robert Goble's wife, Elizabeth, who decorated it with gilding and painting.
Gift of Paul and Janet Goble (the maker's son and daughter-in-law), Lincoln, Nebraska (moving to Black Hawk, South Dakota), on June 3, 1997.
Gift of Paul and Janet Goble (the maker's son and daughter-in-law), Lincoln, Nebraska (moving to Black Hawk, South Dakota), on June 3, 1997.
Credit Line: Gift of Paul and Janet Goble, 1997
Not on view
Published ReferencesWolfgang Joachim Zuckermann, The Modern Harpsichord (New York: 1969), p. 121.
"Recent Acquisitions." America's Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter 25, No. 1 (October 1997), p. 6-7.
"Recent Acquisitions." America's Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter 25, No. 1 (October 1997), p. 6-7.
Object number: 06075