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Flamenco Guitar

1846
Not on view
According to an internal label, this guitar was built for Pablo Concepcion in 1846. Concepcion may have been a dealer selling the instrument under his own name. The beautifully figured rosewood ribs (possibly of the ziricote or bocote species) suggest readily available rosewood. Though a Spanish-style guitar, this material choice may suggest a South American origin.

Technical description: Six-string guitar (originally ten-string, six-course instrument with single strings for first two courses); two-piece pine soundboard with rosewood / white veneer / rosewood binding; soundhole diameter of 74.13 mm with two rings of binding consisting of stained black and thin white veneer layers in a b/w/b/w/b/w/b pattern; rosewood tie bridge; inlaid black oval decoration below bridge with initals "M M" and horn a foliage motifs; mahogany back with rosewood / white veneer / rosewood binding; neck and headstock of pine with rosewood veneer; highly-figured rosewood (ziricote / bocote) ribs; rosewood fingerboard with seventeen brass frets (twelve on neck, five on soundboard); six ebonized friction tuners (Daniel Wheeldon 2016)

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Flamenco Guitar
  • Date: 1846
  • Geography: Spain
  • Culture: Spanish
  • Medium: Wood
  • Dimensions: Total length: 897 mm
  • Classification: Chordophone-Lute-plucked
  • Credit Line: Gift of Ralph Gruber, 1988
  • Object Number: 1988.234
  • Curatorial Department: Musical Instruments

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