<i>Eye of Horus <i> Bass Guitar used by Phil Lesh
date: label: date made
content: 2009
name: label: maker
content: Ritter, Jens
notes: label: Description
content: Bassist Phil Lesh used this guitar, <i>The Eye of Horus </i> while touring with his rock band Furthur in the 2000s. Made by German luthier Jens Ritter, the six-stringed instrument features an ebony fingerboard, LED lights and Egyptian motifs.
label: Description
content: California native Phil Lesh rose to prominence as a member of The Grateful Dead, a counterculture rock band formed in 1965. After the Dead's 1995 break up, Lesh continued to explore improvised jam music in the style of his former group. In 2009 he formed Furthur with former Grateful Dead bandmate Bob Weir
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
label: place made
content: Germany
topic: label: Subject
content: Rock and Roll
label: Subject
content: Music
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Guitars
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Phil Lesh
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0096.01
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0096.01
label: accession number
content: 2012.0096
objectType: label: Object Name
content: guitar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ebony (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material`)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (case material`)
label: Measurements
content: guitar: 2 in x 16 in x 51 in; 5.08 cm x 40.64 cm x 129.54 cm
label: Measurements
content: guitar: 51 1/4 in x 17 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in; 130.175 cm x 43.815 cm x 5.715 cm