3-028-119 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Musical Instruments at the South Kensington Museum: Guitar, 1870. '...an Italian guitar of the sixteenth century, which seems to have been mounted with five sets of strings, four sets having three strings each, and one set having four strings, each set tuned in unison; the wood is inlaid with ivory, ebony, and mother-of-pearl'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.