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Objekt 2

Chitarra battente

Object description

Maker unknown

Southern Italy, 19th c.

Spruce (belly, rounded body, neck stained); ivory medallions (inlays, fingerboard); mull icolored semi-precious stones (inlays, peg-box); metal (strings); belly with fine multi-layered rose

Peg-box; ten pegs inserted in the back

Nine frets (fingerboard); five double courses

L. 93,5 cm, 43 cm (belly), L. 56 cm (vibrating strings)

Donation Hans Peter His, Basel

Inv. 1948.169.

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