Preliminaries

Acknowledgements

Catalogue

Indices

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Technical Drawings, © RCM

Clavicytherium, South German, c. 1480, RCM 1, drawing with additional notes by William Debenham, 1983

Harpsichord, Alessandro Trasuntino, Venice, 1531, RCM 2, drawing with additional notes by William Debenham, 1977

Harpsichord, Italian, c. 1610, RCM 175, drawing with additional notes by Grant O’Brien, 1974

Spinet, English, 1708, RCM 3, drawing by William Bright, 1975, with additional notes by John Barnes, 1977

Clavichord, Joann Bohak, ?Vienna, ?1794, RCM 211, drawing by John Barnes, 1989

Regal, ?German, ?1629, RCM 209, drawing by Christopher Clarke, 1979

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