American Guitar
date: label: date made
content: 1878 - 1882
notes: label: Description
content: This guitar was made by an unknown maker in the United States around 1878-1882. It is a six course (6x1) guitar with a spruce top, rosewood back and sides, cedar neck, and a patented machine head with ivory pegs. This guitar appears as item #6073 in J. Howard Foote' Catalogue from 1880: "Solid Rosewood, neatly inlaid with wood inlaying front, stripe down back, plain rosewood edges, finely finished...$23.00.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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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.
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of J. Howard Foote
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.055692
label: accession number
content: 11535
label: catalog number
content: 55692
objectType: label: Object Name
content: guitar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: spruce (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rosewood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cedar (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (tuning peg heads material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 1/4 in x 12 in x 4 in; 92.075 cm x 30.48 cm x 10.16 cm