Pedal Harp

ca. 1800
Not on view

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Pedal Harp
  • Date: ca. 1800
  • Geography: France
  • Culture: French
  • Medium: Wood, various materials
  • Dimensions: Height: extreme 154.2 cm.
    length of pillar 129.5 cm.
    above soundboard 122.0 cm.,
    Soundboard: resonating length 111.0 cm., greatest width 36.0 cm.;
    Strings (sounding length) longest 136.2 cm.
    shortest 10.5 cm.
    c2 string 34.0 cm.
  • Classification: Chordophone-Harp
  • Credit Line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889
  • Object Number: 89.4.1085
  • Curatorial Department: Musical Instruments

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