Clavicembalo epigrafico
Un epigrafista lo classificherebbe come “oggetto parlante”? È l’unico clavicembalo superstite di Gommar van Everbroeck, Antwerpen, 1659, dal National Music Museum di Vermillion (South Dakota):
Antwerp harpsichords were made to delight not just the sense of hearing but also that of sight. Their interiors, in addition to opulently painted soundboards, were traditionally decorated with woodblock-printed papers. Several of the wide variety of these paper patterns available in Antwerp are found on the NMM’s van Everbroeck harpsichord.
L’interno del coperchio della cassa, rivestito di carta, riporta questo distico:
Laude tua, lector, non indicet author opusve:
hoc opus authorem laudat, hic author opus.
Esiste un corpus dei CLE del Seicento?
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