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.