Prince's Yellow Cloud Electric Guitar
date: label: date made
content: 1983
name: label: user
content: Prince
label: maker
content: Haugen, Barry
label: maker
content: Rusan, David
label: maker
content: Knut-Koupee Enterprises, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: In 1983, Prince hired the Minneapolis, Minnesota guitar company Knut-Koupee Enterprises to build this, likely his first “Cloud” guitar, the bold shape of which was inspired by a unique bass guitar designed in 1972 by Jeff Levin of Sardonyx Guitars. Originally painted white, the guitar debuted in Prince’s breakout film, Purple Rain, and later was painted peach when Prince unveiled his 1987 album, Sign o' the Times. Like Prince’s genre-defying music, it features a flamboyantly fluid shape, with fretboard markers along the neck of the guitar (later added) that combine male and female symbols.
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Minnesota, Minneapolis
topic: label: Subject
content: African American
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Guitars
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content: Highlights from the Culture and the Arts Collection
label: Exhibition
content: Entertainment Nation
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Kendrick, Kathleen M. and Peter C. Liebhold. Smithsonian Treasures of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Paisley Park Enterprises
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0435.01
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0435.01
label: accession number
content: 1993.0435
objectType: label: Object Name
content: guitar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
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content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 38 1/2 in x 11 1/2 in x 2 3/4 in; 97.79 cm x 29.21 cm x 6.985 cm