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Diatonic harp
Date: 1500-1650 ca.
Place Made:Italy, Europe, North
Serial No: none
Signednone
Markingsnone
DescriptionThe very early instrument has a typical resonating chamber, the back carved to a linenfold pattern, the simple post grooved, the neck and pillar modern replacements by the Bisiachs, to restore the irreparably worm-damaged original.
DimensionsMaximum height: 1418 mm
Width across top: 575 mm
Soundbox length: 1122 mm
Soundbox, maximum width: 213 mm
Soundbox, minimum width: 110 mm
Length, longest string: 1219 mm
Length, shortest string: 123 mm
Width across top: 575 mm
Soundbox length: 1122 mm
Soundbox, maximum width: 213 mm
Soundbox, minimum width: 110 mm
Length, longest string: 1219 mm
Length, shortest string: 123 mm
ProvenanceBisiach Collection, Venegono Superoire—Bisiachs bought harp from a religious foundation in the region of Milan. Acquired from the Bisiach heirs, 1968.
Purchased by the National Music Museum from Laurence Witten family, New Haven, Connecticut, 1984.
Purchased by the National Music Museum from Laurence Witten family, New Haven, Connecticut, 1984.
Terms
Credit Line: Witten-Rawlins Collection, 1984
Not on view
Published ReferencesAndré P. Larson, "Early Italian Plucked Stringed Instruments at the Shrine to Music Museum," Lute Society of America Newsletter, Vol. 20, No. 1 (February 1985), p. 7.
André P. Larson, The National Music Museum: A Pictorial Souvenir (Vermillion: National Music Museum, 1988), inside front cover and pp. 4.
“Instrumental Innovations,” Wall Street Journal (December 7,2007), p. W4.
Iris Graville, “Waking the Wood: The Design and Construction of Historical Harps,”
Early Music America, Vol. 15, NO. 3 (Fall 2009), pp. 25-29.
André P. Larson, The National Music Museum: A Pictorial Souvenir (Vermillion: National Music Museum, 1988), inside front cover and pp. 4.
“Instrumental Innovations,” Wall Street Journal (December 7,2007), p. W4.
Iris Graville, “Waking the Wood: The Design and Construction of Historical Harps,”
Early Music America, Vol. 15, NO. 3 (Fall 2009), pp. 25-29.
Object number: 03387