Lyre Guitar
date: label: Date made
content: 1800 - 1899
notes: label: Description
content: This lyre guitar was made in the 19th century by an unknown maker. It is a six course (6x1) lyre-shaped guitar with a pine top, walnut back and sides, with two circular sound holes and a flat bottom. This popular “parlor” instrument was also known in France as "lyre anacréontique" and in England as "Apollo lyre."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Guitars
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Densmore, Frances. Handbook of the Collection of Musical Instruments in the United States National Museum.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.095326
label: accession number
content: 26512
label: catalog number
content: 95326
objectType: label: Object Name
content: guitar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: walnut (back; sides material)
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content: pine (belly material)
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content: metal (frets material)
label: Physical Description
content: ebony (frets material)
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content: gut (strings material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 31 in x 13 1/2 in x 3 7/8 in; 78.74 cm x 34.29 cm x 9.8425 cm