John Player

From Darryl Martin (University of Edinburgh) "Notes on the spinet by John Player (?), c. 1690..." (in the object file for U18e8)

"John Player has left 10 or 11 signed instruments, the first an English virginal dated 1664 (Cobbe Collection, Surrey, England), and the remainder all spinets. In addition, I have attributed the harpsichord measured in the Talbot Manuscript (OCH Mus MS 1187) as being his work, and a letter formerly preserved with the 1700 Tisseran harpsichord (now in the Bate Collection, Oxford) mentiones a double manual harpsichord by Player, now lost from sight. I have also attributed an unsigned spinet in the Russel Collection, Edinburgh to Player, on the basis of many of the features which are also in common to this instrument. I have access to interior views of the Russell Collection instrument which was the final factor in that attribution."