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Technical description: Soundboard of spruce; back, ribs, head and neck of sycamore; fingerboard, tailpiece, tail-gut protector, tailpiece pin and pegs of ebony. Soundboard of one piece with medium grain. S-shaped sound-holes with nicks in the centre at each side. Purfling of ebony/sycamore/ebony. One rib around the whole body. One piece back, lightly figured, rising from left to right, inlaid ebony/sycamore/ebony purfling. Head ends in a rectangular shape. Neck 136 long; fingerboard 263 long, 23.0 wide at nut, 41.6 wide at bottom. Golden brown varnish.
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University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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England (?) - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:321.322-71 Necked box lutes or necked guitars sounded by bowing with a bow
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:321.322-71 Necked box lutes or necked guitars sounded by bowing with a bow
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- Measurements:540
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/17867