Treble Guitar: Museum Object and Cultural History
Treble Guitar: Object Name: guitar. Physical Description: paint (overall material). Physical Description: spruce (top material).
The object in the museum catalogue
This treble guitar was made by an unknown maker in the late 19th to early 20th century. It is a four course (4x2) treble guitar with a spruce top and simulated painted softwood back and sides. The fingerboard is black painted wood with brass fretwire. The tuning pegs are open metal machines in straps of four, Spanish style.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Object Name: guitar
- Physical Description: paint (overall material)
- Physical Description: spruce (top material)
- Physical Description: softwood, stainded (back; sides material)
- Physical Description: maple; brass (bridge material)
- Physical Description: bone? (nut material)
- Physical Description: brass (frets material)
- Physical Description: metal (tuning pegs material)
- Measurements: overall: 26 1/4 in x 9 1/2 in x 3 in; 66.675 cm x 24.13 cm x 7.62 cm
- ID Number: MI.380458
- catalog number: 380458
- accession number: 153000
- Credit Line: Gift of Mary E. Maxwell
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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