Vermillion, South Dakota

July 2007

Can you find a “C” on this piano? (figure it out)

Hope you are keeping busy. We miss having you here. I’m eating the waffles!

Love, Virginia

America’s Shrine to Music Museum, The University of South Dakota, Vermillion. No. 3449. Miniature spinet harpsichord by Francesco Panini Bologna, Italy, 1672. Cypress, finely-pierced rose. One of the smallest full-working miniature harpsichords known. Witten-Rawlins Collection 1984. Rests on a fortepiano (No. 2906) by Davison & Redpath, London 1789. Board of Trustees, 1982.

Leave a comment