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Objekt 5

Hurdy-gurdy

Object description

Maker unknown

France, 18th c.

Maple (belly); bone-inlay for snare-bridge; ebony and bone marquetry at the rim of the belly; maple and walnut (body)

Body shaped like a lute, eleven ribs; peg-box with a rustic woman's head

Two melody·strings, four drone strings

Compass g1-13, 93; thirteen lower keys (ebony), ten upper keys (bone)

L. 665 mm, 490 mm (belly), melody strings 340 mm, drone strings 380-370 mm

Bequest Maurice Bedot-Diodati, Geneva

lnv. 1927.281.

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