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Objekt 21

Arch-cittern (Erzzister)

Object description

Andreas Ernst Kram (1760–1783 documented)

Nuremberg, dated 1770

Andreas Ernst Kram, / In Nurnberg, /

Anno 17 (printed) 70 (manuscript) (paper, back inside)

Spruce (belly); maple (back, ribs); ivory and ebony (inlaid fingerboard); metal (strings) two peg-boxes, closed in the back; eight resp. nine laterally inserted pegs

18 frets (fingerboard); four double courses, nine simple bass strings

L. 100 cm, 41 cm(belly), 46 cm (vibrating stopped strings), 66 cm(vibrating bass strings); h. 7,5-4,5 cm(ribs)

Purchase

Inv. 1879.58.

Audios

Store

After the Reformation

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