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Amplifier (No. 1 Hawaiian guitar model)

(American)
about 1936
Object PlaceLos Angeles, California, United States
Medium/TechniqueAluminum, rosewood, plastic
DimensionsOverall length: 945 mm (37 3/16 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by Bradford M. and Dorothea R. Endicott
Accession number2000.1016.2
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsMusical instruments
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)
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