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Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: B.—Serinette details

Image title:	Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: B.—Serinette
Source:	Leighton, George C.: “Illustrated London News Vol 56” (1870)
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Keywords:	musical instruments, greyscale
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	The serinette, or French bird-organ, was employed by ladies to teach airs to their little singing-birds, serins or finches; this one is of the seventeenth century, 11 in. by 8 in., made of beech-wood, veneered with satin-wood, and inlaid with marquetry of coloured woods representing musical instruments and foliage.” (p. 368) A serinette is a miniature French barrel organ, also called a bird-organ, which plays small wind pipes. The name bird organ comes from the way that these organs were used to teach birds to sing. Serinettes existed that could play four or more different tunes.
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Image title:

Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: B.—Serinette

Source:

Leighton, George C.: “Illustrated London News Vol 56” (1870)

Place shown:

none

Keywords:

musical instruments, greyscale

Status:

out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes usage credit requested
Please do not redistribute without permission, since running this site is expensive.

The serinette, or French bird-organ, was employed by ladies to teach airs to their little singing-birds, serins or finches; this one is of the seventeenth century, 11 in. by 8 in., made of beech-wood, veneered with satin-wood, and inlaid with marquetry of coloured woods representing musical instruments and foliage.” (p. 368)

A serinette is a miniature French barrel organ, also called a bird-organ, which plays small wind pipes. The name bird organ comes from the way that these organs were used to teach birds to sing. Serinettes existed that could play four or more different tunes.

Dimensions:

49 x 55mm (1.9 x 2.2 inches)

Filename:

377-Serinette-q75-1143x1335.jpg

Blog image:

http://fromoldbooks.org/r/R/377-Serinette-q75-429x500.jpg

Blog link:

http://fromoldbooks.org/r/R/pages/377-Serinette/

Scanner dpi:

2400

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Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: B.—Serinettedetails

Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: B.—Serinette details