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Neapolitan mandolin
Neapolitan mandolin dating from c. 1900. Four double courses. Two-piece matched front with bend. Oval soundhole and inlaid plectrum-guard. Dark wood edge-banding and multiple lines of purfling; similar around soundhole. Back of seventeen ribs of plain maple with black lines between. Interior lined with paper. Four shared ebony hitchpins in maple and walnut capping-strip. Pale gold varnish. Maple one-piece neck and pegbox; front face of pegbox veneered in walnut; seventeen frets. Boxwood posterior pegs, of two patterns, with inserted metal pins of smaller diameter to assist fine-tuning.
- Date:
circa 1900 - Maker:
Anonymous - Collection:
Royal College of Music Museum - Inventory number:
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Italy