This is a Ruckers mother-and-child virginal—a 17th-century keyboard instrument with a second, smaller instrument built into it, tuned an octave higher.
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This is a Ruckers mother-and-child virginal—a 17th-century keyboard instrument with a second, smaller instrument built into it, tuned an octave higher. The “child” could be pulled out to play duets or set on top of the “mother” to add a jangly, buzzing color to the main sound—a Renaissance-era layering trick, centuries before mixing desks. Antwerp instrument makers were doing this in the 1600s.
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This is a Ruckers mother-and-child virginal—a 17th-century keyboard instrument with a second, smaller instrument built into it, tuned an octave higher. The “child” could be pulled out to play duets or set on top of the “mother” to add a jangly, buzzing color to the main sound—a Renaissance-era layering trick, centuries before mixing desks. Antwerp instrument makers were doing this in the 1600s.
@BrianRoemmele #globalmuseum #museums #musicalinstruments@globalmuseum Amazing, and so beautiful! 🤩
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This is a Ruckers mother-and-child virginal—a 17th-century keyboard instrument with a second, smaller instrument built into it, tuned an octave higher. The “child” could be pulled out to play duets or set on top of the “mother” to add a jangly, buzzing color to the main sound—a Renaissance-era layering trick, centuries before mixing desks. Antwerp instrument makers were doing this in the 1600s.
@BrianRoemmele #globalmuseum #museums #musicalinstruments@globalmuseum That is *wicked* cool
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This is a Ruckers mother-and-child virginal—a 17th-century keyboard instrument with a second, smaller instrument built into it, tuned an octave higher. The “child” could be pulled out to play duets or set on top of the “mother” to add a jangly, buzzing color to the main sound—a Renaissance-era layering trick, centuries before mixing desks. Antwerp instrument makers were doing this in the 1600s.
@BrianRoemmele #globalmuseum #museums #musicalinstruments@globalmuseum @Arapalla That's pretty cool.
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This is a Ruckers mother-and-child virginal—a 17th-century keyboard instrument with a second, smaller instrument built into it, tuned an octave higher. The “child” could be pulled out to play duets or set on top of the “mother” to add a jangly, buzzing color to the main sound—a Renaissance-era layering trick, centuries before mixing desks. Antwerp instrument makers were doing this in the 1600s.
@BrianRoemmele #globalmuseum #museums #musicalinstruments@globalmuseum #Alt4You The performer opens what almost looks like a wooden crate, first opening the top, which is hinged along the top back, then allowing the front panel to drop open. A keyboard occupies a bit less than half the length of the left front side. The performer plays this keyboard, then at the 35-second mark begins to transform the instrument. First they remove a wooden bar from the top, revealing what seems to be a row of pegs. 1/3
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@globalmuseum #Alt4You The performer opens what almost looks like a wooden crate, first opening the top, which is hinged along the top back, then allowing the front panel to drop open. A keyboard occupies a bit less than half the length of the left front side. The performer plays this keyboard, then at the 35-second mark begins to transform the instrument. First they remove a wooden bar from the top, revealing what seems to be a row of pegs. 1/3
@globalmuseum #Alt4You Then they pull the front right side of the instrument off, revealing behind it a smaller keyboard instrument. They pull this small instrument out, and set it on top, essentially plugging it into the row of pegs. At the 65-second mark, the performance starts playing the smaller keyboard the rests on top of the larger one. 2/3
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@globalmuseum #Alt4You Then they pull the front right side of the instrument off, revealing behind it a smaller keyboard instrument. They pull this small instrument out, and set it on top, essentially plugging it into the row of pegs. At the 65-second mark, the performance starts playing the smaller keyboard the rests on top of the larger one. 2/3
@globalmuseum #Alt4You At the 74-second mark, they again start playing the larger keyboard, and as they do so, the keys of the smaller keyboard move in synch with those of the larger keyboard, and as you can tell from the sound, we now hear both keyboards in perfect synchronicity. 3/3
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This is a Ruckers mother-and-child virginal—a 17th-century keyboard instrument with a second, smaller instrument built into it, tuned an octave higher. The “child” could be pulled out to play duets or set on top of the “mother” to add a jangly, buzzing color to the main sound—a Renaissance-era layering trick, centuries before mixing desks. Antwerp instrument makers were doing this in the 1600s.
@BrianRoemmele #globalmuseum #museums #musicalinstrumentsI think a loose translation of the motto is:
As agreement in small things grows, disagreement in great things shrinks.
Of course, it's been around 50 years since my last Latin class.
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This is a Ruckers mother-and-child virginal—a 17th-century keyboard instrument with a second, smaller instrument built into it, tuned an octave higher. The “child” could be pulled out to play duets or set on top of the “mother” to add a jangly, buzzing color to the main sound—a Renaissance-era layering trick, centuries before mixing desks. Antwerp instrument makers were doing this in the 1600s.
@BrianRoemmele #globalmuseum #museums #musicalinstrumentsI have to assume that a few of the concert-goers of the time would have run out screaming because of the “Devil's own upper keyboard” …
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This is a Ruckers mother-and-child virginal—a 17th-century keyboard instrument with a second, smaller instrument built into it, tuned an octave higher. The “child” could be pulled out to play duets or set on top of the “mother” to add a jangly, buzzing color to the main sound—a Renaissance-era layering trick, centuries before mixing desks. Antwerp instrument makers were doing this in the 1600s.
@BrianRoemmele #globalmuseum #museums #musicalinstruments@globalmuseum great!
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This is a Ruckers mother-and-child virginal—a 17th-century keyboard instrument with a second, smaller instrument built into it, tuned an octave higher. The “child” could be pulled out to play duets or set on top of the “mother” to add a jangly, buzzing color to the main sound—a Renaissance-era layering trick, centuries before mixing desks. Antwerp instrument makers were doing this in the 1600s.
@BrianRoemmele #globalmuseum #museums #musicalinstruments@globalmuseum
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This is a Ruckers mother-and-child virginal—a 17th-century keyboard instrument with a second, smaller instrument built into it, tuned an octave higher. The “child” could be pulled out to play duets or set on top of the “mother” to add a jangly, buzzing color to the main sound—a Renaissance-era layering trick, centuries before mixing desks. Antwerp instrument makers were doing this in the 1600s.
@BrianRoemmele #globalmuseum #museums #musicalinstruments@globalmuseum
What an impressive piece of engineering, apart from anything else. -
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