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Polygonal virginal
Alternate name:Arpicordo
Date: 1540 ca.
Place Made:Sicily, Italy, Europe
Descriptionpolygonal case of cypress, the keyboard of boxwood and ebony
Dimensionslength 1445 mm
ProvenanceOwned by Colin C. Sterne (11/21/1921-7/23/2008), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who taught music at the University of Pittsburgh 1948-1986. According to information available at the Skinner Auction, Sterne sold it to Richard W. and Jeannine E. Abel, Franklin, Pennsylvania, in 1986.
Terms
Credit Line: John Fowler Fund, in memory of Margaret Kimmel Fowler, 2021
Not on view
Published ReferencesNMM catalog: _As Good as Gold: The First 50 Years (1973-2023)_. Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2023. (pp. 79-80, 90-91)
Object number: 15652