Samuel Pepys in London - 5 October, 1664
from Diary of Samuel Pepys, 5 October 1664, page 431:
...[T]o the Musique-meeting at the post office... And thither anon come all the Gresham College and a great deal of noble company. And the new instrument was brought, called the Arched Viall - where, being tuned with Lutestrings and played on with Kees like an Organ - a piece of Parchment is always kept moving; and the strings, which by the keys are pressed down upon it, are grated, in imitation of a bow, by the parchment; and so it is intended to resemble several vyalls played on with one bow - but so basely and harshly, that it will never do. But after three hours' stay, it could not be Fixt… more >>
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Samuel Pepys, Diary of Samuel Pepys, 5 October 1664. In Robert Latham and William Matthews (ed.), The diary of Samuel Pepys : a selection (London, 2003), p. 431. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1407321560363 accessed: 1 September, 2024
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Date/Time | 5 October, 1664 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by isobel.1111 on Wed, 06 Aug 2014 11:39:20 +0100