Object Details
- Description
- This guitar was made in Italy in the 19th century by an unknown maker. It is a six course (6x1) lyre-shaped guitar with a pine top, maple back, black lacquer sides, with two circular sound holes and a flat bottom. This popular “parlor” instrument was also known in France as "lyre anacréontique" and in England as "Apollo lyre."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Annie-May Hegeman
- 1800-1899
- ID Number
- MI.378923
- catalog number
- 378923
- accession number
- 147093
- Object Name
- guitar
- Measurements
- overall: 31 1/2 in x 13 1/2 in x 4 1/8 in; 80.01 cm x 34.29 cm x 10.4775 cm
- place made
- Italy
- Italy
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Guitars
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_605727
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-2a80-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
