Psaltery

Alternate name(s)

Fretless zither

Date1969

Place MadeVermillion, South Dakota, United States, North America

Serial No.none

SignednoneDescriptionBody:
Top: red-varnished spruce; red-varnished maple bar underneath strings bearing masking tape pitch designation label; label handwritten in black ink indicating diatonic string tuning of a D major scale [tuned d’ to d”]
Back: red-varnished maple
Sides: red-varnished maple
Soundhole: small circular soundhole [40 mm diameter] edged with white celluloid painted with yellow finish
Fretboard: none
Nut: red-varnished maple with brass staple saddle; located diagonal to strings
Bridge: red-varnished maple with brass staple saddle; located perpendicular to strings; black-painted hardwood endpiece on bottom side of instrument covering hitchpins
Tuning Pins: 8 polished steel tuning pins located in 1 row above nut
Table-top Rests: none
DimensionsBody length: 560 mm / 22 inches
Body width: 115 mm / 4.5 inches
Body height: 64 mm / 2.5 inches
Highest string vibrating length: 315 mm / 12.4 inches
Lowest string vibrating length: 470 mm / 18.5 inches
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.

Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979

Object number04230

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