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Objekt 5

Guitar

Object description

Cornu (dates unknown)

Paris, beginning 19th c.

Repair Nicolas Eugen Simoutre (1839–1908)

Basel, between 1859 and 1890

CORNU (brand , back Inside, difficult to read);

REPARE PAR SIMOUTRE / LUTHIER A BALE. (brand , back inside)

spruce (table); mahogany (back, ribs);ivory, ebony, mother-of- earl (decoration) flat peg-box in the form of an 8, six pegs inserted in the back

17 frets (brass, fingerboard)

L. 91 cm, 62,5 cm (vibrating strings); H. 8 cm (ribs)

Donation Family Preiswerk-Braun, Basel

Inv. 1903.91.

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