The Partenope-tail register levers

 

          The register levers for the four instruments discussed here were fancifully based on the two tails of the siren Partenope.  Click on the images below for details of how these levers were designed and made.

 

The wooden model

 

The wax castings

 

The bass and treble gilt levers

The bass register lever

 

The treble register lever

 

 

 

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