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Double guitar
Double guitar, double bodied instrument with two necks. Satinwood backs. Purfling around sound holes, fingerboard and soundboard. The tension bridges with mustachioed and other florid ornamentation in applied wood. Bone endpin for carrying cord with ornamentation at the base. The ebony fingerboards with 16 and 11 metal frets are set into the soundboard. The heads pegged for six strings with wooden pegs.
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circa 1850 - Maker:
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Horniman Museum and Gardens - Inventory number:
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Germany - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:321.322 Necked box lutes or necked guitars
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:321.322 Necked box lutes or necked guitars
- Repository:Horniman Museum and Gardens
- Measurements:overall: 920 mm x 340 mm x 85 mm