Lyre Guitar
date: label: Date made
content: 1800-1899
notes: label: Description
content: This guitar was made in Italy in the 19th century by an unknown maker. It is a six course (6x1) lyre-shaped guitar with a pine top, maple back, black lacquer 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
place: label: place made
content: Italy
label: place made
content: Italy
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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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Annie-May Hegeman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.378923
label: catalog number
content: 378923
label: accession number
content: 147093
objectType: label: Object Name
content: guitar
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 31 1/2 in x 13 1/2 in x 4 1/8 in; 80.01 cm x 34.29 cm x 10.4775 cm