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This is instrument is an acoustical classical guitar in Stauffer style with flat body, long neck and tilted headstock. The body is made with a spruce top with a central soundhole, and maple back and ribs. The neck is of stained brown wood, covered with a dark, thick layer of paint/varnish. The raised fretboard is made of ebonized wood and has 19 nickel-silver frets. The nut is missing. The headstock is of a traditional Stauffer style, with a brass plate cover on the back with sun engraving, and has six in-line brass tuners (one knob missing). There are six nylon strings attached to a rectangular bridge with bridge pins (two missing; all somewhat different).

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  • Decorative elements:Bursting sun engraving on brass cover plate of headstock. Mother-of-pearl flower inlay on the fretboard. Purfling around the soundhole and edges made with dark mastic, mother-of-pearl inlay and circular brass pin dots. Moustache-vine appliqué on top, around bridge.
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  • Hornbostel-Sachs category:321.322 Necked box lutes or necked guitars
  • Repository:Swindon Museum & Art Gallery
  • Measurements:Height: 995mm; Width (at lower bout): 294mm; Body height: 444mm; Body depth: 80mm; Sounding Length: 645mm