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Theorboid english guittar
back: 2 pieces of faint-flamed sycamore, varnished warm brown. Ribs: similar to back. Belly: 2 pieces of pine, ?originally painted black; soundhole, 72 diameter, containing a vellum rose; lower peg-box has 11 pegs (?for 4 double courses and 3 single strings): those for the 2 highest are in a little compartment of their own; nut: ivory, 16 grooves, originally round; pegs: oak, with ebony and ivory studs in the ends. Length 1080, body 410, width 290, depth 75, 138, strings 580, 895
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1742–50 - Maker:
Lambert, Jean-Nicolas [Person] - Collection:
Royal Northern College of Music - Inventory number:
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Paris (Timezone: Europe/Paris)
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- Inscriptions:printed label (with ornate border): J.N. Lambert / Rue Michel-le-Comte a Paris / 1750 (50 crossed out, 42 added in ink)|handwritten on underside of belly: La joy / a paris / ce 3 8bre / 1742
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- Repository:Royal Northern College of Music