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Mandoline

4 double courses of strings. Body: 15 flat ribs and 2 wider sides of maple. Belly: pine, bent at bridge; fingerplate of tortoise-shell. Finger-board: mahogany with 17 frets (?silver), inlaid with 4 pearl spots; nut: ivory. Neck: mahogany, flat, shaped at end; machine; 8 circular peg-ends in bone (?ivory). Length 596, body 315, width 197, depth 147, fingerboard 214

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  • Inscriptions:printed label: GIUSEPPE VINACCIA / FU GAETANO [Giuseppe Vinaccia fu Gaetano also handwritten in ink] / FABBRICANTE DI STRUMENTI ARMONICI / Corso Vittrio Emanuele / No. 446 / NAPOLI ANNO 1894 (last digit in ink)
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  • Repository:Royal Northern College of Music