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dubbelinstrument in het Grote Salon foto: LUCID

The double instrument

in the Large Drawing Room

In the Large Drawing Room, visitors can find a rare double instrument on which both virginal and harpsichord can be played. Listen to how the instrument sounds.

The Moretus family bought several valuable harpsichords over the years, but only this instrument can still be found in the house today.

Only four copies exist worldwide.

What this instrument sounds like? Listen to an excerpt played on a copy of the double instrument in Museum Plantin-Moretus.

Johann Mattheson, Suite a 2 cembali: Allemande
Albert Winkelman & Arjan Janson, double instrument by Louis van Emmerik after Joannes Josephus Coenen
© Clavigram, 1981

Museum Plantin-Moretus

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