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Joseph-Louis Germain French
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Essentially a lyre-guitar with abbreviated arms, this variant was fitted with a flat base so that it could stand as a table ornament. The back and sides are of figured mahogany; the top is of spruce. Six single courses of strings.
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Title: Lyre Guitar
Maker:
Joseph-Louis Germain (French, Mirecourt 1822–1870 Mirecourt)
Date: ca. 1840
Geography: France
Culture: French
Medium: Wood, mother-of-pearl, gut, metal wound on silk
Dimensions:
L. 36 in.
L. of fingerboard (nut to base) 39.8 cm
W. of fingerboard at base 5.9 cm
L. of body 43. cm
W. of body at widest 33.1 cm
D. of body at neck 7.2 cm, at foot 9.2 cm
L. of Strings vibrating 65.1 cm
Diam. of soundhole +/- 6cm
Classification: Chordophone-Lute-plucked-fretted
Credit Line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889
Object Number: 89.4.1074
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