Double Zither

Maker:: Andreas Giller

Date:: 18th century (?)

Geography:: Augsburg, Germany

Culture:: German

Medium:: Wood, metal

Dimensions:: L. +/- 58 cm., Greatest width 30.8 cm, Depth of soundbox 5.4 cm., Sounding length of longest string 38 cm., Sounding length of shortest string 37.2 cm.

Classification:: Chordophone-Zither-plucked

Credit Line:: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889

Accession Number:: 89.4.997

Not on view

Marking: (label inside) Andr. Giller in Augsburg

Mary Elizabeth Adams Brown

Catalogue of the Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments: Europe. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1904, vol. I, pg. 52.

Catalogue of the Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments of All Nations: I. Europe, Galleries 25 and 26, Central Cases of Galleries 27 and 28. Catalogue., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, vol. 13, pg. 52-53.

Timelines
Central Europe (including Germany), 1600–1800 A.D.

Department

Musical Instruments (5,305)

Artist / Maker / Culture

Andreas Giller (1)

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Chordophones (1,505)

Metal (70,353)

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