Made in Edinburgh by Grant O’Brien in 1981
Details about
this copy
The instrument is shown here
without the removable front flap and gives a good idea of the player’s
impression of the virginal. The motto inside the lid
SCIENTIA NON HABET INIMICVM NISI IGNORANTEM means ‘Knowledge has no enemies
except ignorance (or the ignorant)’.
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