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Guitar; carved of wood; hourglass-shaped body with hole at centre, bridge glued on, neck glued on at top with twelve wooden tuning pegs, wooden frets; twelve metal strings tied onto bridge across hole to tuning pegs; two loops of leather (one on body, one on neck) for attaching strap.

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