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Like his fellow Dubliner, Thomas Perry (1744-1817), he used ivory fingerboards and metal ring-shaped tuning pegs. The English guitar was wire-strung, tuned in the key of C major and enjoyed a vogue amongst fashionable ladies in the British Isles from about 1750 until 1810.","physicalDescription":"\"A large-sized instrument with pointed shoulders. Back of two pieces of sycamore. Belly of pine, the rose missing. The neck is slightly hollowed on the bass side and carries a nearly flat ivory fingerboard with shaped end, fourteen full frets of brass and two short frets, and five capotasto holes. An ebony capotasto is attached by a brass bolt. The head has an original enclosed worm-gear machine tuning, with brass ring-shaped fingerpieces. The square finial is faced with tortoiseshell in which is set a small silver shield with the initials <i>J.G.D.</i>.\" Anthony Baines, <i>Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard instruments</i> (London, 1998), p. 50.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Gibson, William","id":"A8428"},"association":{"text":"Made","id":"x28690"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"ivory","id":"AAT11857"},{"text":"brass","id":"AAT10946"},{"text":"ebony","id":"AAT12055"},{"text":"pine","id":"AAT12620"},{"text":"sycamore","id":"AAT12357"}],"techniques":[{"text":"planing","id":"AAT53863"},{"text":"joining","id":"AAT137062"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"planed and joined pine soundboard; planed and joined sycamore back and sides; planed ivory fingerboard with brass frets; carved and planed ebony capotasto","categories":[{"text":"Musical instruments","id":"THES48919"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"FWK","id":"THES48597"},"images":["2006AN7941","2006AN7940"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"007","id":"THES379897"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"English guitar","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Dublin","id":"x28811"},"association":{"text":"Made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1765","earliest":"1765-01-01","latest":"1765-12-31"},"association":{"text":"Made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given to the Museum by Miss N. 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