'Balke', Hawaiian guitar stamped in ink inside the back and the neck: 'BADRI PARSHAD & CO./Piano & Harmonium Maker/Beadon Road/Lahore'. The two-piece back, ribs, hollow neck and spruce table of unvarnished wood. The (fretless) neck is constructed of four thin planks of wood. The top of the neck is of a paler wood, with a sound hole, and it extends to the sound hole in the table. The angled head is built with fourteed machine heads. Black wood nut. Rectangular fixed wooden pin bridge carved with fourteen channels for fourteen small sliding bridges for fine tuning, each one of black wood topped with a small metal rod for each individual string to rest on. Eight strings survive of various gauges: four metal overwound (two of brass), four of plain wire (two of brass). Six strings missing, six sliding bridges missing, three pins missing. In leather case (Horniman Museum number: M22.12.61/1a).
Hawaiian guitar
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