Plans of instruments

The Royal College of Music Museum produces scanned digital prints of detailed scale drawings of instruments from the RCM's collection.

All drawings are reproduced on white paper.

RCM 1: Clavicytherium, ?German, c 1480

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 new drawing replaces the less detailed one made by Derek Adlam and William Debenham in 1976.

Measured and drawn by William Debenham, 1983.

£106.20 + VAT

RCM 2: Harpsichord by Alessandro Trasuntino, Venice, 1531

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.

£130.20 + VAT

RCM 3: Bentside spinet, English, 1708

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.

£106.20 + VAT

RCM 26: Chitarrone by Magnus Tieffenbrucker, Venice, 1608 

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.

£72.60 + VAT

RCM 32: Guitar, attributed to Jean Voboam, Paris, c 1680

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.

£118.20 + VAT

RCM 46: Division viol by Barak Norman, London, 1692

Length of belly 634 mm. Present string length 658 mm.

(2 sheets, 1370 x 1040 mm.)

Drawn by Stephen Barber, 1976.

£130.20 + VAT

RCM 48: Cittern by Gieronimo Campi, Italian, late 16th century

Overall length 728 mm. Original string length 433 mm approx. Lacks rose and bridge.

(1 sheet, 850 x 600 mm.)

Drawn by Ian Harwood, 1974.

£72.60 + VAT

RCM 63: Recorder (treble), I Denner, Nuremberg, early 18th

Carved ivory. Pitch: A=415 approx.

(1 sheet, 585 x 470 mm, with additional notes.)

Drawn by Friedrich von Huene, 1968; revised 1978.

£70.20 + VAT

RCM 171: Guitar by Belchior Dias, Lisbon, 1581 

Vaulted back, body length 365 mm. Belly not original.

(2 sheets, 1120 x 770 mm, with additional notes.)

Drawn by Stephen Barber, 1976.

£106.20 + VAT

RCM 175: Harpsichord, ?Italian, c 1575 

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.

£106.20 + VAT

RCM 177: Clavichord by Johann Bohak, ?Vienna, 1794 

Compass FF-f³. Formerly owned by Joseph Haydn; altered c 1831. Fret-free.

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.

£106.20 + VAT

RCM 209: Regal, German, 1629

Compass C/E-c³. Metal resonators. Overall length 1165 mm.

(1 sheet, 1875 x 1025 mm.)

Drawn by Christopher Clarke, 1979.

£106.20 + VAT

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