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Guitar; made of armadillo shell; body of guitar is armadillo shell with piece of wood across opening for sounding board; hole cut in centre of sounding board, inlaid with triangles of dark and light wood (marquetry) around outside; wooden bridge glued onto sounding board below hole; wooden neck attached on one end with ten wooden tuning pegs, metal frets along neck; ten wire strings tied to bridge, across hole and attached to tuning pegs.

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