Spinet

Spinet

This instrument was hand-crafted by Faculty of Music lecturer and musicologist Meredith Maxwell Moon. Fascinated by early music, Moon began building reproduction instruments while working at the Bodleian Library in Oxford during the 1960s. Through his teaching, personality and character, Moon became one of the legends of the University’s Musicology department.  See article on the donation of the spinet to the Grainger Museum, by Professor John Griffiths

87 h x 183 wide x 75 deep cm. Inscribed "MEREDITH MOON MELBURNIAE ME FECIT MCXCLXX"

Grainger Museum Collection, University of Melbourne. Gift of the Faculty of Music, 2005.

Grainger Museum Collection, University of Melbourne. Gift of the Faculty of Music, 2005.

Grainger Museum

1970

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