Guitar, English

This entry catalogues an English guitar in the collections of the Swedish Museum of Performing Arts. The description identifies the instrument by its country of origin rather than by a maker's name, which is how museum catalogues often record guitars whose workshop cannot be established from the instrument itself. English guitar making of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries produced small-bodied instruments built for domestic playing, with a shallow body, a short neck and a bridge arrangement suited to the gut or silk strings of the period. No maker, date or dimensions are given in the record, so none are claimed here.

Guitar, English

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