Italian virginal Floriani
Italian virginal (rectangular) after Benedetto Floriani, Venice 1550
so called Queen Elizabeth’s Virginal
Italian virginal (polygonal) after Benedetto Floriani, Venice 1550 so called Queen Elizabeth’s Virginal
- Original: Benedetto Floriani, Venice 1550
- Dimensions: cm 158 x 55 x 18
- Compass: BB-d3 (51 notes).
- Original compass: C/E-f3 (50 notes).
- Disposition: one keyboard, 8′
- Pitch: a = 415 Hz, transposable +/- one semitone (440/392 Hz)
- Materials: case and soundboard in cypress, bottom and internal construction in spruce, bridges, jacks and register in pear, keyboard in spruce covered with boxwood, sharps in ebony.
- Decoration: varnished wood. Parchment rose on the soundboard.
- Stand in cherry with three or four turned legs.
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