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Description: | While the body of this instrument is lyre-shaped, it has six strings and a guitar fingerboard. By naming this guitar 'Apollo lyre', Robert Wornum paid fashionable homage to the Greek god of music. A finial depicting the god's head conceals the peg-box for the six strings.
Apollo lyre, lyre-guitar. The crescent-shaped body is of wood, with a flat back. The sound-table is flat, lacquered black, with a central soundhole that encircles a gilt crescent enclosing a gilt sphere. The hollow arms terminate in gilded scrolls with a black star at each centre. The arms are connected to the top of the central fingerboard by gilt brackets. The fretted wooden fingerboard terminates in a carved finial, with a black mask of Apollo radiating gilded sunbeams. Concealed behind the hinged finial are six rear entrant pegs arranged in a circle. The six strings pass over the soundhole and are secured through six bone eyelets that lie beneath a fixed bridge. The sound-table and ribs are edged with two narrow red painted stripes either side of a wide gilt stripe. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Subjects: | wood mineral plaster lyre-guitars paint ivory gold animal fibre metal thread Victoria and Albert Museum | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-16691 |
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