This consisted of two instruments in one: a normal virginals (either spinet or muselar) with one 8′ register, and an ottavino with one 4′ register.

Joannes (Jan) Ruckers was the oldest son of Hans Ruckers who built the extraordinary 'mother and child' virginal also at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (29.90). After training in his father's workshop, Joannes became a master and joined the Guild of St. Luke's in 1611.

An inventory of instruments in the surviving three dozen paintings by Vermeer would include two lutes, a harpsichord, three bass viols, five citterns, a baroque guitar, a trumpet, a recorder, and three muselar virginals.

Sep 1, 2016 · Painted arabesques and lid paintings were replaced in most instances by block-printed papers, including the dolphin motif that is captured on so many Flemish paintings of the period (which can also be seen on a muselar virginal by Joannes Ruckers from 1622 [(11.176.1)]).

Virginals with the keyboard on the right hand side and a softer, gentler sound are called muselars (muselaars). Joannes Couchet's single surviving virginal is a muselar. The origin of the name...

The musician plays a muselar virginal, a popular type of instrument, the keyboard of which is positioned to the right of center. The simple, geometric form of the music stand above it is...

muselar (plural muselars) A kind of virginal from northern Europe, having the keyboard placed right of centre and the strings plucked about one-third of the way along their sounding length.

Aug 25, 2011 · The Music Library is the current home of the School of Music’s muselar virginal. Our muselar virginal was built in 1995 by Berkeley harpsichord maker John Phillips (http://www.jph.us/).

Il muselar (o muselaar termine fiammingo del XVI secolo) è una variante del virginale, strumento musicale a tastiera e corde pizzicate, appartenente alla famiglia del clavicembalo. Simile al virginale e alla spinetta italiana, per la disposizione della tastiera in rapporto alle corde, sono tutti strumenti a salterello .

This instrument is a muselar virginal, a type of instrument with a rectangular case and a single set of strings that run parallel to the back of the case and with its keyboard set to the right fo the center of the case.