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Organ (regal)

Marked by: Simon Bauer (German, active late 17th century)
1692
Object Place: Southern Germany or Austria

Medium/Technique Walnut
Dimensions Length 65.7 cm, width 18.9 cm, case height 9.9 cm (Length 25 7/8 in., width 7 7/16 in., case height 3 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Edward F. Searles Musical Instrument Collection—Gift of Edward S. Rowland, Benjamin A. Rowland, Jr., George B. Rowland, Daniel B. Rowland, Rodney D. Rowland and M.A. Swedlund in memory of their father, Benjamin Allen Rowland
Accession Number1981.746
ClassificationsMusical instrumentsAerophones

ProvenanceBefore 1920, sold by source unidentified, probably in Europe, to Edward F. Searles (1841-1920), Methuen, Massachusetts; by 1920, by inheritance to B. Allen Rowland (1910-1991), New Castle, New Hampshire; 1981, gift of the estate of B. Allen Rowland¸ Lawrence, Massachusetts, to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 22, 1992)

Tanz-Frölich in allen ehren, 1593
Anonymous composer
Performed by Henk de Vries on a regal after Bauer, made by William Dijkstra, Oostwold-Oldambt, The Netherlands, 2011