Voboam Guitar
date: label: Date made
content: 1690-1730
label: date made
content: 1730
name: label: maker
content: Voboam, Jean-Baptiste
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This guitar was made by Jean-Baptiste Voboam of Paris, France in 1730. It is a six course (6x1) guitar but the body size suggests that this instrument was originally a four course (4x2) guitar. This guitar has a spruce top and rosewood veneered spruce back and rosewood sides with ivory and ebony inlay. The peghead of the guitar is not original to the instrument and is marked:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Allexandre<br> Voboam<br>1690</p>
label: Description
content: <p>(There is a label inside the guitar that reads):</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Voboam<br>a Paris 1730</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
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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: Made available through the Cooper Union Museum
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.60.1361
label: accession number
content: 227687
label: catalog number
content: 60.1361
objectType: label: Object Name
content: guitar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: spruce (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rosewood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 35 in x 5 3/4 in x 3 1/2 in; 88.9 cm x 14.605 cm x 8.89 cm