Lyra da gamba (composite)
date: label: date made
content: 19th century
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>This lyra da gamba was made by an unknown maker, provenance unknown, probably 19th century. It is a composite instrument made of a three-piece table of pine, two-piece back of poplar with a faint irregular figure, ribs of plain beech; neck of stained (black) hardwood terminating in a flat “leaf” pegbox, and opaque reddish-brown varnish.</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>The object is composed of unrelated fragments and does not appear to have ever functioned as a musical instrument in this form. The crude cello (?) body, probably 18th century, is accompanied by a 19th-century neck and leaf-shaped pegbox accommodating nine pegs. Acquired from the collection of Leopoldo Franciolini in 1892.</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>Leopoldo Franciolini (1844–1920) was an Italian antique dealer who flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is remembered as a fraudster who sold faked and altered historical musical instruments.</p>
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
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.095265
label: accession number
content: 26256
label: catalog number
content: 95265
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lyra Da Gamba
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pine (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: poplar (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: beech (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (back; belly material)
label: Physical Description
content: gut (strings material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 35 1/2 in x 15 3/4 in x 7 in; 90.17 cm x 40.005 cm x 17.78 cm