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Tony & Bonnie Vinatieri Family Trust, 2008. |
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Inscriptions: Printed on paper label with decorative border: A. GALIANO / RAPHAEL [Masonic compass] CIANI / FABBRICANTE DI / MANDOLINI / E CHITARRE / GARENTITE |
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Body: Stringing: eight steel strings. Soundboard: one-piece spruce, medium grain; slightly bent. Back: two-piece maple cut off-the-quarter; medium, horizontal curl; slightly bent; strip of purfling along center joint, slightly to the treble side of center. Ribs: four-piece maple cut off-the-quarter; medium curl. Neck: mahogany, integral with head. Binding: white celluloid on top; white ivoroid on back; three-ply, black-white-black celluloid strip trim on front, back, and ribs. Bridge: ebony; bone saddle with string offsets set into top; ends terminate in separate guitar-pin heads with abalone eyes glued to top. Rosette: two rings of black-white-black-black, four-ply celluloid purfling with space between; soundhole bound on inside with tan-colored ivoroid. Pick guard: imitation tortoise-shell celluloid with extension on treble side; inlaid with two abalone angels playing a lyre and foliate design; lyre strings made from inlaid white celluloid strips. Tailpiece: nickel-plated steel in shape of armrest. Lacquer: clear on front; brown stain on back, ribs and neck. |
Head: mahogany; broken pediment-style with turned, brass ornament; veneered with dark-stained hardwood over light and dark-stained layer (purfling not cut into strips); abalone foliate inlay of identical design to that on NMM 10772, plectrum guitar by John D’Angelico, 1937. Tuners: two pairs of nickel-plated steel, inset worm-gear machine tuners with mother-of-pearl heads and nickel-silver plates with engraved and impressed floral designs.
Fingerboard: ebony; 20 nickel-silver frets under D and G strings; 20 nickel-silver frets under A-string; 28 nickel-silver frets under E-string, this section of the fingerboard over a spruce extension bridging the soundhole; foliate mother-of-pearl inlay behind 1st, 3rd, 10th and 15th frets; foliate abalone inlay behind 5th, 7th, and 12th frets; single mother-of-pearl dots behind 17th, 20th, 22nd, and 25th frets; mother-of-pearl side dots behind 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 10th frets. Nut: bone.
Linings: thick spruce in upper bouts; changes to kerfed maple about one inch below corners. Corner blocks: dark-stained hardwood, probably maple. Neck block: mahogany or Spanish cedar; grain runs parallel to plane of top and back. End block: ebony; wide; shallow. Top braces: four large spruce braces set into linings, three below soundhole, one above soundhole. Back braces: four large spruce braces set into linings; wide maple back graft; upper spruce brace cut down after being set into linings.
Case: Plywood case covered in black, imitation-leather-texture canvas with purple cotton-velour lining, nickel-plated steel and brass hardware, and steel handle.
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