Clearly it is not a harmonium (thanks for the enlargement, David). I don't know what it is. Rob
_____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 March 2006 09:06 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CITTERN] Re: Crathes Castle ceiling - 17th c 'guittar' cittern In einer eMail vom 22.03.2006 08:53:01 Westeurop=E4ische Normalzeit schreibt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: But for me the interest is the instrument to the right of the cittern player - a harmonium. Rob, Wouldn't the portable keyboard thingy be a regal, rather than a harmonium? The regal was a sort of organ portative, but with short reed pipes hidden in the body, rather than the more familiar, visible, flute pipes. My dictionary of music says that the regal was in use "from the late Middle Ages to the 18th century". I've seen and heard one in the museum of the School of Music in Berlin. It sounds .. well ... sort of ... like a harmonium ;-) Cheers, John D. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
