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This harp was made in 1787 for a certain Mme de Binet (née Honteloup) of Dieppe, possibly as a wedding present, and was fitted with a series of holes and shutters in the back of the sound box. These were part of a short-lived device, invented in 1785 by the harpist Jean-Baptiste Krumpholtz (1740–1790) so as to vary the volume of the harp. Not only was this harp fitted with the latest mechanical gadget, it was also highly progressive in its decoration. The figure with an Egyptian headdress was carved on it more than twenty  years before the vogue for all things Egyptian became widely fashionable at the time of Napoleon’s military campaigns in Egypt.","physicalDescription":"'Back of seven undecorated ribs, five of oak, two sycamore. The five soundholes in the back can each be closed by a shutter, the five shutters opened and closed together by a link, now missing, which was connected to one of the eight pedals. Pine belly, painted with doves, vases of flowers and tripod perfume-bearers amid musical instruments (trophies taken from Delafosse's Sixth <i>Livre de Trophies d' Amour et de Musique</i>, p.3). The handsomely carved pillar and neck are in plain birchwood, and at their junction is a scroll carved with leaves and a female head in Egyptian head-dress'.\n\nAnthony Baines, <i>Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum</i>, <i>Part II. 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