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The Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 13 (1978)

THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART JOURNAL | VOLUME 13

"En Route to the Piano: A Converted Virginal"

Ripin, Edwin M.

1978

8 pages

This title is out of print.

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Edwin M. Ripin

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Polygonal Virginal converted to a Tangent Piano, Franciscus Bonafinis Italian, Cypress, ebony, ivory, various materials, Italian — Polygonal Virginal converted to a Tangent Piano
Franciscus Bonafinis
1585 or 1587; converted in 1717

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