Lately, while I visited our local museum and its huge collection of 
historical music instruments, I did spot a virginals made by the Flemish 
manufacturer Ruckers ca. 1610.
This virginals did indeed look close to the one seen in the Vermeer 
painting "The Music Lesson" and so I started to rebuild it and to update 
my scene from 2002 (some of you might even remember):

http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/%3C3da07987%40news.povray.org%3E/?ttop=357010&toff=6500



"PARTHENIA or The Maidenhead" was a popular collection of tunes for the 
virginals (a kind of "best of" or "hit list" from the early 17th 
century) and might very well have found its way to Delft. And it also 
includes my favorite renaissance composition: "The Earl of Salisbury, 
Pavane & Galliard" by William Byrd.

-Ive

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