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work_63mo5cf4uvfe3kc5vkvgstywsq	Edmond Johnson	The Death and Second Life of the Harpsichord	2013.0	36	.pdf	application/pdf	15105	1094	66	from museum piece to modern musical instrument the harpsichord histories and mechanisms, the harpsichord, virginal, spinet, and clavichord were generally conflated under a common umbrella of instrumental obsolescence.8 More important than the specific genus Browning 29 See ''Special Loan Exhibition of Ancient Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum,'' Journal of the Society of Arts 20, no. The thirty years that followed saw no fewer than sixteen major exhibitions of historical musical instruments, often held in conjunction generally privileged the historical over the musical, often featuring instruments that were closely connected with famous figures from the past. place in the popular historical imagination.41 Many other keyboard instruments were similarly displayed bearing pedigrees that included having been played by a famous figure from the past. are presented with the harpsichord not so much as musical instrument the harpsichord, for him its value was less as a serious musical instrument piece to modern musical instrument the harpsichord underwent	./cache/work_63mo5cf4uvfe3kc5vkvgstywsq.pdf	./txt/work_63mo5cf4uvfe3kc5vkvgstywsq.txt