Guitar

Date1891-1892 ca.

Place DistributedNew York, New York, United States

Place MadeBoston, Massachusetts, United States

ModelAmerican Spanish model / Bruno Style A / Haynes Style H

Serial No.H 2358

SignedBranded on oval maple veneer label and on neck block: [enclosed in oval] ·C.BRUNO· / ----·---- / NEW.YORK
MarkingsStamped on top of head: H 2348
DescriptionThe stamping on the headstock corresponds to the system used by Haynes for their Bay State models - the Bruno Style A appears to be congruent with the Bay State Style H and this example bears a Haynes series serial number that would place manufacture ca. 1891-92.

Stringing: six gut strings
Soundboard: two-piece spruce: wide grain
Back: two-piece book-matched Brazilian rosewood; back stripe comprised of brown hardwood strip surrounded on each side by narrower three-ply light hardwood and black hardwood strips
Ribs: two-piece Brazilian rosewood
Head: slotted, mahogany peghead veneered with rosewood
Neck: mahogany with ridge along center of back; flared heel
Heel cap: ebony
Binding: rosewood on top only, with trim comprised of four alternating strips of light and brown hardwood, the outer two strips wider
Fingerboard: ebony, possibly later; 19nickel-silver T frets
Nut: missing
Bridge: ebony pyramid bridge with non-angled bone saddle
Tuners: two sets of worm-gear machine heads with brass plates, brass rollers, bone heads, the plates stamped with sprigs of oak with acorns, geometric borders, with two pinwheels at each end
Endpin: missing
Rosette: 5-ply alternating strips of light and brown hardwood, with wider strip at center, surrounded on each side with 2-ply brown hardwood strips, with space in between
Varnish: golden with craquelure
Linings: kerfed mahogany
Neck block: spruce with beveled corners, the grain running parallel to top and back; varnished
End block: spruce with beveled corners, the grain running parallel to top and back
Top braces: two spruce braces above soundhole, the upper very low and wide, the lower tapered; three tapered spruce braces below soundhole, including one below bridge; spruce graft between center two braces; wide, low spruce bridge plate; spruce braces on each side of soundhole
Back braces: mahogany back graft; two tapered mahogany braces in upper bout; four very low, wide, slightly tapered braces in center and lower bouts
DimensionsTotal guitar length: 959 mm (37-3/4″)
Back length: 485 mm (19-3/32″)
Upper bout width: 243 mm (9-9/16″)
Waist width: 202 mm (7-31/32″)
Lower bout width: 343 mm (13-1/2″)
Rib height (including edging) at heel: 87 mm (3-13/32″)
Rib height, at waist: 96 mm (3-13/16″)
Rib height, at end block: 106 mm (4-5/32″)
Head length: 156 mm (6-5/32″)
Head width, top: 66 mm (2-19/32″)
Head width, bottom: 52 mm (2-1/16″)
Neck length (nut to ribs): 315 mm (12-13/32″)
Neck width, nut: 48 mm (1-29/32″)
Neck width, heel: 58 mm (2-9/32″)
Soundhole diameter: 89 mm (3-1/2″)
Vibrating string length (nut to bridge edge): 632 mm (24-7/8″)

Credit LinePaul and Jean Christian Collection

Object number12357

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