Lyre Guitar
Object type: Lyre Guitar
Department: Musical Instruments
Culture: French
Artist: Joseph-Louis Germain
Artist bio: French, Mirecourt 1822–1870 Mirecourt
Artist role: Maker
Artist nationality: French
Date: ca. 1840
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
Geography:     France  
Credit line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889
Accession year: 1889