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WELCOME TO PELHAM GALLERIES |
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THE BEETHOVEN SECRETAIRE
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An Exceptional Viennese Empire Mechanical Organ Secrétaire, the movement by Franz Egidius Arzt playing Beethoven’s Battle Symphony
Circa 1815
Height: 191 cm (6 ft. 3 in.)
Width: 108 cm (3 ft. 6 ½ in.)
Depth: 61 cm (2 ft.)
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A Double-Manual Harpsichord by Jacob Kirckman, London 1763
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Height: 3ft (91.5 cm)
Width: 3ft 3 ½ in. (101.5 cm)
Length: 7ft 10 ½ in. (240 cm)
Compass: FF-f3 omitting FF sharp.
Disposition: 2 x 8ft, 1 x 4ft, the four brass hand stops controlling the two 8 ft registers, the 4 ft register and the 8 ft lute stop. The dogleg on the front 8ft jacks allows the lower manual to play 2 x 8ft and 1 x4ft. The upper manual can play the front 8ft or the lute stop.
Literature: Donald Boalch, Makers of the Harpsichord and Clavichord 1440-1840, Third Edition (Oxford 1995), p.433.
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A Unique and Highly Important Neapolitan double-manual Cembalo-Tiorbino (Theorbo-Harpsichord) attributed to Gasparre Sabbatino
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Naples, Circa 1710
Exhibited: Ritorno al Barocco, da Caravaggio a Vanvitelli, Naples, Galleria Nazionale di Capodimonte, 12 December 2009 - 11 April 2010, illustrated exhib. cat. vol.II, p.14-15.
Compass: GG without GG# to f3.
Disposition: 2 x 8 foot brass-strung stops on the lower manual, the back 8 foot with buff-stop slider; 1 x 8 foot gut-strung tiorbino stop on the upper manual, the registers and slider operated by brass hand-stops set into a panel above the key-blocks.
Pitch: A 440.
Dimensions:
Total Height: 3 ft. 5 in. (104 cm)
Total Length: 8 ft. 10 in. (270 cm)
Total Width: 3 ft. 6 in. (107 cm)
Height with lid open: 6 ft. 3 in. (190.5 cm)
The instrument:
Length 8 ft. 4 ½ in. (255 cm) Width: 3 ft. 1 ¾ in. (96 cm) Height 9 in. (23 cm)
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A Louis XV Transitional Ormolu Cartel Clock
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The Movement by François Ageron, the Case in the manner of Robert Osmond
Circa 1760
Height: 34 ½ in. (88 cm)
Width: 15 ¾ in. (40 cm)
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A George III Square Piano
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by Johannes Zumpe and Gabriel Buntebart, London 1773
Height: 2 ft 7 in. (79 cm)
Width : 4 ft 2 in. (127 cm)
Depth : 1 ft 7 in. (48 cm)
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An Early George III Square Piano
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by Frederick Beck, London 1773
Height: 2 ft 8 in (81.5 cm)
Width: 4 ft 8 1/2 in (143.5 cm)
Depth: 1 ft 7 1/4 in (49 cm)
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