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Historical models on which the soundboard rosettes are based

 

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Anonymous Neapolitan harpsichord signed 'G.A. 1630', Rome, No. 789

(NOT by Onofrio Guarracino)

 

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Single-manual harpsichord by Onofrio Guarracino, Naples, 1651, Andrea Coen, Rome

 

 

                  

Rectangular virginal by Onofrio Guarracino, Naples, 1663, Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, Bologna

 

                    

Single-manual harpsichord, attributed by Grant O'Brien to Onofrio Guarracino, Naples, c.1675

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cat. No. 89.4.1231

 

         

Two Anonymous Neapolitan harpsichords, perhaps by the same maker, but not by Guarracino

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (left) and Rome, No. 859

 

These are some of the rosettes found in historical instruments made in Naples which were used in the design and execution of the rosettes in the 5-octave 'Mozart' harpsichords.

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