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Title: Portable Harp
Date: mid-18th century (?)
Culture: European
Medium: Wood, various materials
Dimensions:
Height: extreme 114.0 cm.
length of pillar 109.0 cm.
above soundboard 82.5 cm.
Soundboard: resonating length 78.0 cm., greatest width 27.0 cm.;
Strings (sounding length) longest 97.0 cm.
shortest 10.5 cm.
c2 string 29.0 cm.
Classification: Chordophone-Harp
Credit Line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889
Object Number: 89.4.1088
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