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Renaissance Harp
Unknown and The Bisiach Workshop, Milan, Italy (restorers).1550 c.
National Music Museum, University of South Dakota
Vermillion, United States
Harp made in northern Italy, ca. 1550 (NMM 3387). This diatonic harp is fitted with 30 gut strings. The back is a shallow sound box carved in linen-fold pattern. The pillar is carved in a grooved pattern. The harp's high crown is a 20th-century replacement made when the instrument was restored in the Bisiach Workshop in Milan, Italy. Height 141.8 cm.
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Details
- Title: Renaissance Harp
- Creator: Unknown, The Bisiach Workshop, Milan, Italy (restorers).
- Date Created: 1550 c.
- Location Created: Northern Italy
- Type: plucked stringed musical instrument
- Rights: © National Music Museum
- Provenance: Ex coll.: Religious foundation near Milan; Bisiach Workshop, Milan, Italy
- Photo Credit: Bill Willroth, Sr.
- Credit: Witten-Rawlins Collection, 1984
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