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Steel Guitar.
Technical description: Cheap mass-produced guitar. Red stained birch plywood soundboard, side and back. Soundhole 85mm diameter. White plastic purfling around the inside edge of the soundhole. Ebony bridge with metal (nickel?) saddle. Ebony bridge pins with mother-of-pearl dots. Bridge 153mm long, 28.5mm wide. Rosewood endpin with mother-of-pearl dot. Heel, neck and head of one piece of maple. Nickel plated machine heads with brass rollers and white plastic buttons. Brass nut, raised to allow steel playing, the strings being about 8mm above the fretboard. Fingerboard of black stained maple, with frets underneath a printed brown notation label running the length of the fingerboard.
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Mid 20th Century - Maker:
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University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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United States of America - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:321.322-5 Necked box lutes or necked guitars sounded by the bare fingers
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:321.322-5 Necked box lutes or necked guitars sounded by the bare fingers
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- Measurements:940
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/17127