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Mandolin

One of a matched pair of mandolinos. Six double courses of gut strings. Two-piece front of medium to wide grain, with wide grain at sides; edged with purfling. Soundhole with rose. Around rose a simple border of chip-carved scallops. Lute-style bridge, of ?limewood, with top of ebony and ivory lines. Back of thirteen two-part ivory/ebony ribs with a dart-shaped joint at the widest point of the back; ribs separated with red and white purfling lines. Capping-strip of ?mahogany with a composite ebony/ivory pediment-shape at the centre. Neck and pegbox of composite construction. Double gut frets. Nut (of ?ivory) scalloped between string pairs. The fingerboard slightly convex and edged with ivory and lines of ebony, framing a central plain panel. Pegbox is composite.

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  • Inscriptions:Handwritten label: "1778 Marzo / Io Antonio Preda feci in Madrid / per Sa.Ea. Francesco Pesaro / Ambasciator Veneto."
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  • Repository:Royal College of Music Museum
  • Measurements:Length: 542mm. Width: 182mm. Depth: 102mm.