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English guitar
The English guitar or guittar was the name given to a cittern popular in the 1750s to the early 1800s. This instrument was called the English guitar to differentiate it from the Spanish guitar, and a seven-course cittern made in Continental Europe. This particular guitar has two patents: one is the watchkey tuning mechanism of J.N. Preston which made the short strings easier to tune than normal pe…
Type of item
- English guitars
Type of item
- English guitars
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Creation date
- mid 18th century
Places
- London
Provenance
- Horniman Museum and Gardens
Identifier
- http://collections.horniman.ac.uk/objects/12316
Format
- wood
- ivory
- copper alloy
- textile
- metal thread
- metal
- Metal
- Ivory
- Metallic thread
- Wood
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2015-11-18T11:02:16.089Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2016-07-12T17:51:42.644Z