Andrea Di Maio
Italian styled instruments
Copy after "Barberini"
Firenze, Galleria dell'Accademia. 2007
In 2007 I have built a close copy of an anonimous neapolitan instrument (so called "Barberini") owned by the "Gallerie dell'Accademia" in Florence. Above: five pictures taken in different steps of construction. From left to right: the main rose (The original instrument has three roses), keyboard construction, nameboard, tail end (26°), jackslot construction.
Cembalo "Barberini"
Anonimo, Napoli 1650ca. Priv.coll.Vasanello, Italy
Below: images of the anonimous neapolitan harpsichord kept in Vasanello Castle near Viterbo. From left: the main rose; the keyboard; the trebble side of jack slots, the instrument in its outer case, partial wiew of the drawing, a wiev of the inside structure.
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Onofrio Guarracino
Napoli, 1651
Roma, Private Collection. Restored in 1995
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