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Harp guitar

Date1910 ca.

Place MadeUnited States, North America

ModelHarp 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
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”)
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.
Published ReferencesRobert Carl Hartman, Guitars and Mandolins in America: Featuring the Larson’s Creations, pp. 107-108.

Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979

Object number01395

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