Guitar

mid-19th century

Not on view

Technical description: Six-string guitar; pine soundboard with binding of laminated unequally sized strips of ebony and ivory (from edge in) pattern of b/w/b/w/b/b/b/w/b that continues around body and fingerboard; soundhole diameter of 80.47 mm with binding (inside out) of b/w/b/w/b/b/b/b/b/w/b/w/b/b; ebony pin bridge with mother-of-pearl inlaid dots; burl (burr) maple veneer on pine wood back with ivory binding with a black inked line; ribs of burl (burr) maple; ebonized hardwood back (glossy black veneer); headstock replaced; ebony fingerboard with matching binding as body and seventeen nickel-silver frets (twelve on body, five on soundboard); slotted brass worm gear tuning mechanism with bone buttons and rollers (old, but not original) (Daniel Wheeldon 2016)

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Title: Guitar
Maker: Mauchant frères
Date: mid-19th century
Geography: Paris, France
Culture: French
Medium: Wood
Dimensions: Total length: 933 mm
Classification: Chordophone-Lute-plucked-fretted
Credit Line: Purchase, Louis C. and Craig P. Baker Gift, Clara Mertens Bequest, in memory of André Mertens, Rogers Fund and The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, by exchange, 1990
Object Number: 1990.218.1
Curatorial Department: Musical Instruments

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