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Bandurria

Date1890-1910 ca.
Place MadeBarcelona, Spain, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedLabel: FABRICA DE GUITARRAS / DE / ESTRUCH HERMANOS / TALLERES EN VALENCIA / DESPACHO: Calle Ancha, 30 / BARCELONA
Markingsnone
DescriptionTop: three-piece spruce, center strip semi-slab cut
Sides: cypress
Back: two-piece cypress
Neck and head: spuce, back and sides painted red-brown (original finish)
Frets: 12 brass
Fingerboard: rosewood
Bridge: rosewood
Nut: bone
Heel cap: none
Pegs: brown hardwood
Linings: beech
Neck block: integral with head and neck; foot at joint with back
End block: spruce
Top braces: one spruce each above and below soundhole
Back brace: spruce
DimensionsTotal instrument length: 58.9 cm (23 3/16”)
Fingerboard length: 16 cm (6 5/16”)
Nut to bridge: 27.5 cm (10 13/16”)
Nut to neck and body joint: 9 cm (3 17/32”)
Belly width/diameter: na
Fingerboard width at nut: 5.2 cm (2 1/16”)
Fingerboard width at body joint: 5.55 cm (2 3/16”)
Width of lower bout: 28.7 cm (11 5/16”)
Body depth: 7.3 cm (2 7/8”) at neck tapering to 8.0 cm (3 5/32”) at bottom of instrument
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Published ReferencesJoseph R. Johnson. “The Mandolin Orchestra in America,” The Big Red Book of American Lutherie Vol. II, 1988-1900, pp. 262, 272-273.
Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Object number04004
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