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This was largely owing to the enthusiasm of Princess Charlotte (1796-1817), daughter of the Prince Regent, for such instruments. This example has eight strings and was probably played much like a Spanish guitar, but with two extra strings in the bass. It was made by Clementi & Co, a firm founded by Muzio Clementi (1752-1832) who came from Rome and settled in London in the early 1790s, where he set up a highly successful music-publishing and instrument-making business.","physicalDescription":"'Rounded body of three pieces, with an open slot in the centre piece, and closed at the bottom by a deep curved plate, the whole stained brown and bordered with rows of simulated pearl ornament. Belly painted cream-colour bordered with flowers, with a fretted rose and a fixed bridge. The neck is thinned at the back down the bass side. The slightly curved black-painted fingerboard has twelve ivory frets and a shaped flat head with ten rear pegs. The instrument is, however, strung with eight single strings of gut, the two centre pegs being functionless' - Anthony Baines: <i>Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard instruments</i> (London, 1998), pp. 66-67.","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"G. 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