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Collections > Musical Instruments
Keyboard, reed, stringed and wind instruments between 100 and 300 years old, including a harpsicord by Jacob and Abraham Kirchman c. 1785.
Spinet Panel
Part of a set of three panels from a spinet or other keyboard instrument. The panels are all decorated with figures, musical instruments, cherubs and animals. This... view details
Double Flageolet
Double flageolet of boxwood with ivory mounts and mouthpiece and silvered stops, by Simpson of London, No.266. Two descant recorders are mounted below a single, broad... view details
Pochette
Pochette or dancing-master's fiddle of fruitwood and pinewood, with five-ribbed body, the fingerboard and pegs of ebony with ivory detailing, the head carved as a... view details
Union Pipes
Set of union pipes, the rosewood stock inlaid with etched mother-of-pearl, the mouthpiece and single chanter of ebony, the pipes of brass with ivory caps or collars,... view details
Hurdy Gurdy
Hurdy-gurdy of sycamore or other pale wood, the case is decorated in ink with scrolls, scalloped edgings, ruled outlinings and lozenge patterns. The head is carved... view details
Inkwell-cum-musical box
Inkwell of bronze and gilt bronze with an elongated octagonal plinth veneered in kingwood. Behind the standing figure, a clump of leaves is hollowed to form a pen... view details
Jewel Case with Musical Box
Small jewel box with musical box incorporated, of gilt bronze and mother-of-pearl, the top set with an ormolu figure of Cupid, seated on a stool and playing a harp,... view details
Grand Piano
Made by Broadwood & Son, the case veneered on all sides with mahogany, cross-banded with satinwood and kingwood, stringed with holly and boxwood. The fascia and... view details
Serpent
Serpent covered in black leather, with two rows of three sound-holes with ivory rims, mounts and three stops of brass, the brass collars punched with trefoil edges. A... view details