851 risultati all'interno di Istituzione Royal College of Music Museum

A replica of the RCM Museum's clavicytherium, RCM 1.

Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments describes a Qing (ch'ing) as a 'Lithophone of the Han Chinese, used in state rituals […] made of resonant limestone, marble or jade'; they are designed to be suspended in a frame and struck with a wood…

A tambourine, possibly of Algerian origin, made from wood and parchment. The frame, decorated with line patterns and irregular shaped pieces of mother-of-pearl, is made from a single piece of wood that has been bent into shape and the ends lap-joined toge…

Wooden, ribbed box carved with nosegay on top; plays William Tell, Freischutz, Waltz.

Formerly belonging to John Wilbraham.

Two letters enclosed in case giving further details; instrument plus two crooks.

Rope lattice, wooden pillar.

Large, curved cylindrical body, black with gold flowers & leaves, rope lattice.

French horn.

An early 18th-century English walnut spinet with a mitred tail. Compass: G1/B1 broken octave to d3, 54 notes. Except for the spine, the outside of the case has a polished finish. The keywell area is veneered in cedar with white-black-white stringing, the …

Renaissance lute altered to a bass mandolin. Altered first to seven double courses with seven ivory hitchbuttons in tail, but current nut and bridge are notched for six double courses. Two-piece later front, medium grain, very thick. Layered paper rose wi…

Neapolitan mandolin with four double courses of wire. Front of fine to wide grain, stained brown, with bend. Soundhole with bevelled edge surrounded by tortoiseshell and mother-of-pearl collar. Inlaid tortoiseshell plectrum-guard bordered with mother-of-p…

Philomele. a form of wire-strung violin with a flat back. Guitar-shape with a double curve at shoulders. Flat two-piece front, fine-grained, with unusual and elaborate flame soundholes edged with delicate chequered purfling and lines. Similar purfling on …

Ivory pipes and stocks; bag with cover of pink figured woven silk trimmed with ruched ribbon. Round stock holds turned reed cap which in turn holds chanter with 7 finger holes and one thumb hole. Smaller cap connected laterally to chanter cap holds tenor …

Free reed instrument of metal, sounded by the mouth and having separate reeds for each note, brought into use by the opening of shutters worked by keys.

Boxwood; ivory mounts; ebony mouthpiece: 7 brass keys, the covers plain and square except for the speaker which is round; the keys mounted in turned blocks except for the C sharp / G sharp which is now in a saddle; the speaker carried to the front by a ha…

Boxwood pipes and mouthpiece; stock of darker brown wood: three pipes of equal length inserted side by side in a rectangular stock, the centre pipe that of a keyless French flageolet with four almost equal finger holes and two thumb holes; the outer pipes…

Organ hurdy-gurdy (vielle organisée) with guitar-form body; composite and modified. Front, mahogany, in two sections; tail section, holding wheel and bridges, is arched. Two C-shaped soundholes at tail. Rib on exposed side is of five strips, three of map…

A 3-octave portable miniature piano in horizontal harp form. Compass: c to c3, 37 notes.

A nail violin and associated bow, possibly made in Germany circa 1800. Wooden soundboard in semi-circular shape with soundhole, and metal nails mounted around the edge. The nails giving the diatonic intervals are straight, and those for the chromatic inte…

Twenty-five bowls mounted on a square section iron axle. On the left-hand end of the axle is mounted a flywheel, diameter 280mm, made from a lead rim of 22mm square cross section mounted on four iron spokes. The left-hand end of the axle rests in an '…

Asymmetrical shallow box-zither with five stopped strings and 25 open strings. Soundbox of coniferous wood veneered in rosewood with the underside ebonised, standing on three ball feet of ?ivory; 26 metal frets, seventeen over full width of fingerboard; n…

A late 18th-century clavichord re-built in Vienna c. 1831. Compass: F1 to f3, 61 notes. Due to the alterations to the instrument it is not possible to determine the original string scalings.