Guitar

Mauchant frères

mid-19th century · Wood · Musical Instruments

Technical description: Six-string guitar; pine soundboard with binding of laminated unequally sized strips of ebony and ivory (from edge in) pattern of b/w/b/w/b/b/b/w/b that continues around body and fingerboard; soundhole diameter of 80.47 mm with binding (inside out) of b/w/b/w/b/b/b/b/b/w/b/w/b/b; ebony pin bridge with mother-of-pearl inlaid dots; burl (burr) maple veneer on pine wood back with ivory binding with a black inked line; ribs of burl (burr) maple; ebonized hardwood back (glossy black veneer); headstock replaced; ebony fingerboard with matching binding as body and seventeen nickel-silver frets (twelve on body, five on soundboard); slotted brass worm gear tuning mechanism with bone buttons and rollers (old, but not original) (Daniel Wheeldon 2016)

Artist

Mauchant frères

Date

mid-19th century

Medium

Wood

Culture

French

Department

Musical Instruments

Credit line

Purchase, Louis C. and Craig P. Baker Gift, Clara Mertens Bequest, in memory of André Mertens, Rogers Fund and The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, by exchange, 1990