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Neck of pine, stained black, with a rosewood fingerboard inlaid with various woods in a feather design, and with seventeen brass frets and a wooden nut. The figure-of-eight shaped head has four pegs for four single strings.' - Anthony Baines:<i>Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard instruments</i> (London, 1998), p. 62.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"Made","id":"x28690"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"olive","id":"AAT12333"},{"text":"rosewood","id":"AAT12424"},{"text":"pine","id":"AAT12620"},{"text":"brass","id":"AAT10946"}],"techniques":[{"text":"inlay","id":"AAT53850"},{"text":"planing","id":"AAT53863"},{"text":"joining","id":"AAT137062"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"planed and joined olivewood back and sides, planed pine soundboard, planed and inlaid rosewood fingerboard with brass frets.","categories":[{"text":"Musical instruments","id":"THES48919"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"FWK","id":"THES48597"},"images":[],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"002","id":"THES341733"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Machete","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Madeira","id":"x29895"},"association":{"text":"Made","id":"x28654"},"note":"or Portugal"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1840-1870","earliest":"1840-01-01","latest":"1870-12-31"},"association":{"text":"Made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Length","value":"50.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"length total","note":""},{"dimension":"Length","value":"22.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"length of body","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"10.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"Width of upper bout","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"middle bout","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"13","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"lower bout","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Measurements taken from Anthony Baines:<i>Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard instruments.</i> (London, 1998), p. 62.","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"This instrument was lent to the South Kensington Museum by its owner, Carl Engel (1818-1882), in 1874, and subsequently bought by the museum in 1882 for £2 - 10 - 0 (£2.50). Engel was an eminent musicologist from Hanover, who published the <i>Descriptive Catalogue of the Musical Instruments in the South Kensington Museum</i> in 1874. The South Kensington Museum has been known as the Victoria & Albert Museum since 1899.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Olivewood, rosewood and other woods, Portuguese, 1840 - 70.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Anthony Baines:<i>Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard instruments.</i> (London, 1998), p.62"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Carl Engel: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Musical Instruments in the South Kensington Museum, (London, 1874), p. 325."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["203-1882"],"accessionNumberNum":"203","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1882,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-08-06","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-24","availableToBook":true}}