Tollefsen - some 65 instruments, European and Oriental, mainly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as follows:
Lute family (including lute, mandola, chitaeroney, theorbo) - 12.
Also two presentation lutes, one belonging to Catherine the Great of Russia.
Three specimens of the lyre family.
Wind instruments (including oboe, piccolo, recorders, one eighteenth-century German flute and a French clarinet of 1820) - 15.
Two violas d' amore, one dated 1792.
One violin
One harpsichord (Pisa 1756)
One Italian bagpipe
Two presentation batons
Fourteen bows of various kinds
Nine Oriental instruments, including sitar, vina, Persian long lute, braiva, Siam spike fiddle, koto and Chinese drum.
African - a group of twenty-five ethnic instruments mainly from Sierra Leone, purchased in 1970 for the
library by Miss Margaret Sherwin and her sister Cathy. This collection includes an assortment of gourd rattles, drums, metal rings and beaters, a feulah guitar,
buli horn, flute, and a fine balangi (xylophone). Also present is a koro from Mali, with directions for tuning, extra strings, picture of the artist and singer,
and a tape of music and commentary.
Musical Instruments