Hello - Vermeer's painings? Was it his acheing back, or do you
not like the period style?
 
(I'm too incompetent to draw a smile - or a wink ... (;-)}?
 
I seem to recall that some of each are shown, in his works and in
those of his contgemporaries. Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman"
from the National Gallery shows a muselaar, as does "Young Woman
Standing at a Virginal." - although the dutch translation of the latter
on the museum card calls it a "spinet."
 
                                                        Calhoun, Seattle