"Instruments-Historic, Rare and Unique" Round Cushion

This beautiful Pouf is decorated with Historic, Rare and Unique Instruments and would add class and style to any musicians home, office or music room. Good decoration need not be a privilege of the rich; the old Antwerp clavecin-makers, who were all members of the guild of St. Luke, the artists' guild, knew how to worthily decorate their instruments at little cost, They painted their sound-boards with appropriate ornamentation, and used bright colour to heighten the effect of their instruments when open. The Italians went even farther in richer details, and beautified other stringed instruments besides those with key-boards. The Arab blood in Spain may have tended to preserve the use of the guitar as a national instrument in that country. A Guitar and a Cetera made by Stradivarius, as he usually signed his name, are of especial interest as showing that he was not above making more simple instruments than violins. The beautiful tortoiseshell Guitar has a tradition that connects it with Mary of Scots and the unfortunate Rizzio.