Lap steel guitar (No. 1 Hawaiian guitar model)
Dobro Company
(American)
about 1936
Object PlaceLos Angeles, California, United States
Medium/TechniqueAluminum, rosewood, plastic
DimensionsGuitar: length 94.5 cm, width 26.8 cm, depth 4.8 cm (Length 37 3/16 in., width 10 9/16 in., depth 1 7/8 in.)
Amplifier: height 35.5 cm, width 38.4 cm, depth 23.4 cm (height 14 in., width 15 1/8 in., depth 9 3/16 in.)
Amplifier: height 35.5 cm, width 38.4 cm, depth 23.4 cm (height 14 in., width 15 1/8 in., depth 9 3/16 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by Bradford M. and Dorothea R. Endicott
Accession number2000.1016.1
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Not on viewClassificationsMusical instruments
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Provenance1936, sold by Roger Morse, Brockton, Massachusetts, to his student, William E. Metta (b. 1915), Massachusetts; 2000, sold by Metta to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 13, 2000)
