Talk:Clavicytherium

No Franciolinis please
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Reason: I visited the link and it is clear that this instrument passed through the hands of the notorious harpsichord fraudster Leopoldo Franciolini. As you can read in Edward Kottick's fine book A History of the Harpsichord, Franciolini was a flamboyant fraudster who put together all sorts of outlandish instruments out of antique spare parts and sold them to gullible collectors. As the Hans Adler website mentions, this instrument could easily have been installed in a case that wasn't a musical instrument at all.

More generally, the odds of any instrument coming from Franciolini's workshop being authentic are pretty low; around the world, musical instrument museums are presently taking their Franciolinis formerly on public display and putting them into warehouse storage. The Hans Adler website linked above shows a commendable reticence in asserting authenticity for this instrument; it mentions that it was put forth as evidence in Franciolini's criminal trial.

Summing up: I don't mean to say it's certain that this instrument is a fraud. But we're a reference source, and so we should only put forth material that we think is very likely not fraudulent. Opus33 (talk) 21:41, 22 April 2014 (UTC)


 * yes agreed 47.6.98.36 (talk) 00:46, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

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