St Cecilia’s Hall Edinburgh

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Stradivarius is famous for stringed instruments as Ruckers is for harpsichords. 

This Ruckers -1608 was owned by Queen Christina of Sweden.

Fashions come and go, this instrument started life as a harpsichord, then at great expense and trouble it was converted to a piano until 1928 and then returned back into a harpsichord.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruckers

http://collections.nmmusd.org/Keyboards/RuckersHarpsichord10000/Ruckers1643.html

Here you can download a virtual display of St Cecilia’s collection

 

http://www.stcecilias.ed.ac.uk