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Harp guitar
Date: 1910 ca.
Place Made:United States, North America
Model: Harp guitar
Serial No: none
Signednone
Markingsnone
Description12 bass strings, 8 melody strings
Top: spruce
sides: black-painted light hardwood
back: black-painted light hardwood
exterior surfaces: painted black
neck: black-painted light hardwood
peg head: black-painted light hardwood
frets: 19 nickel silver
button: black-painted light hardwood
fingerboard: rosewood
bridge: black-painted light hardwood
saddle: nickel silver
nut: white celluloid
heel cap: none
Top: spruce
sides: black-painted light hardwood
back: black-painted light hardwood
exterior surfaces: painted black
neck: black-painted light hardwood
peg head: black-painted light hardwood
frets: 19 nickel silver
button: black-painted light hardwood
fingerboard: rosewood
bridge: black-painted light hardwood
saddle: nickel silver
nut: white celluloid
heel cap: none
Dimensionstotal instrument length: 108.5 cm (43 1/16”)
fingerboard length: 43.8 cm (17 ¼”)
nut to bridge: 63.5 cm (25”)
nut to neck and body joint: 30.2 cm (11 7/8”)
belly width/diameter: n/a
fingerboard width at nut: 4.5 cm (1 25/32”)
fingerboard width at body joint: 5.5 cm (2 5/32”)
width of upper bout: 38.8 cm (15 9/32”)
width of lower bout: 50.5 cm (19 7/8”)
width of waist: 33.2 cm (13 1/16”)
body depth at neck: 9.6 (3 25/32”)
body depth at bottom: 10.4 cm (4 3/32”)
fingerboard length: 43.8 cm (17 ¼”)
nut to bridge: 63.5 cm (25”)
nut to neck and body joint: 30.2 cm (11 7/8”)
belly width/diameter: n/a
fingerboard width at nut: 4.5 cm (1 25/32”)
fingerboard width at body joint: 5.5 cm (2 5/32”)
width of upper bout: 38.8 cm (15 9/32”)
width of lower bout: 50.5 cm (19 7/8”)
width of waist: 33.2 cm (13 1/16”)
body depth at neck: 9.6 (3 25/32”)
body depth at bottom: 10.4 cm (4 3/32”)
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Owned by Fred Miller, national representative for Slingerland Co., Chicago, Illinois. Arne obtained this instrument from Fred in 1955.
Owned by Fred Miller, national representative for Slingerland Co., Chicago, Illinois. Arne obtained this instrument from Fred in 1955.
Terms
Credit Line: Arne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Not on view
Published ReferencesRobert Carl Hartman, Guitars and Mandolins in America: Featuring the Larson’s Creations, pp. 107-108.
Object number: 01395