Plans of instruments

The following technical drawings have been published by the Museum for the benefit of those wishing to carry out organological research or to build copies of early instruments. These detailed full-scale plans are digital prints on white paper.

The prices listed below give the basic cost of the plan alone. For prices including postage and VAT for EU orders please contact the Museum at museum@rcm.ac.uk, or call 020 7591 4346.

RCM 48 Cittern by Gieronimo Campi, Italian, late 16th century, £12
Lacks rose and bridge. Overall length 728 mm. Original string length 433 mm approx.
(1 sheet, 850 x 600 mm)
Drawn by Ian Harwood, 1974

RCM 26 Chitarrone by Magnus Tieffenbrucker, Venice, 1608, £21
Stringing 6 x 2, 8 x 1. Body length 679.5 mm. String lengths 933 mm approx and 1700 mm approx.
(3 sheets, 850 x 600 mm)
Drawn by Ian Harwood, 1974; revised 1977

RCM 171 Guitar by Belchior Dias, Lisbon, 1581, £25
Vaulted back, body length 365 mm, belly not original.
(2 sheets, 1120 x 770 mm, with additional notes)
Drawn by Stephen Barber, 1976

RCM 32 Guitar, attributed to Jean Voboam, Paris, c. 1680, £25
Length of back 456 mm. Bridge not original.
(2 sheets, 1280 x 950 mm and 950 x 810 mm, with additional notes)
Drawn by Stephen Barber, 1979

RCM 46 Division viol by Barak Norman, London, 1692, £32
Length of belly 634 mm. Present string length 658 mm.
(2 sheets, 1370 x 1040 mm)
Drawn by Stephen Barber, 1976

RCM 63 Recorder (treble), I Denner, Nuremberg, early 18th, £7.50
century. Carved ivory. Pitch: A=415 approx.
(1 sheet, 585 x 470 mm, with additional notes)
Drawn by Friedrich von Huene, 1968; revised 1978

RCM 1 Clavicytherium, ?German, c. 1480, £41
1 x 8. Present compass E-g²; original compass thought to have been E "E sharp" F G-g². Overall height 1415 mm.
(1 sheet, 2360 x 1030 mm, with additional notes).
This drawing replaces the less detailed one made by Derek Adlam and William Debenham in 1976. Measured and drawn by William Debenham, 1983

RCM 2 Harpsichord by Alessandro Trasuntino, Venice, 1531, £42
Formerly 1 x 8, 1 x 4, now 2 x 8. Present compass GG/BB-c3; original compass thought to have been C/E-f³. Overall length 2250 mm. Outer case not drawn.
(1 sheet, 3480 x 1030 mm, with additional notes)
Drawn by William Debenham, 1977

RCM 175 Harpsichord, ?Italian, c. 1575, £34
Originally 1 x 8, now 2 x 8. Original compass C/E-c³; present compass C-d³ without C sharp. Overall
length 1860 mm. Lacks original outer case.
(1 sheet, 2130 x 1030 mm, with additional notes)
Drawn by Grant O'Brien, 1974

RCM 3 Bentside spinet, English, 1708, £28
Compass GG/BB-d³, the lowest two sharps being divided to give both the short octave and the sharps.
Overall length 1680 mm.
(1 sheet, 1930 x 1030 mm, with additional notes)
Drawn by William Bright, 1975

RCM 177 Clavichord by Johann Bohak, ?Vienna, 1794, £31
Fret-free. Compass FF-f³. Formerly owned by Joseph Haydn; altered c 1831; the drawing shows conjectured missing parts (including bridge, tangents, tuning pins, upper part of wrest plank, lid and 'nameboard'), based on a clavichord by Ferdinand Hofmann, Vienna, c 1790, and clearly identified. Overall length 1475 mm.
(1 sheet, 2040 x 845 mm)
Drawn by John Barnes, 1989

RCM 209 Regal, German, 1629, £28
Compass C/E-c³. Metal resonators. Overall length 1165 mm.
(1 sheet, 1875 x 1025 mm)
Drawn by Christopher Clarke, 1979
 

A series of photographs of each of the above instruments is also available and details will be sent on request (there are many for some of the keyboard instruments, so it is unlikely that a complete series would be desired).

Prices
6 x 8" prints - £9.00 each
8 x 10" prints - £9.00 each
10 x 12" prints - £11.00 each
plus postage, and VAT for EU orders.

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