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Lap steel guitar (Ultratone model)
Gibson, Inc. (American)
about 1949
Object Place: Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
Medium/Technique
Maple, plastic, steel
Dimensions
Length 83 cm, width 20.5 cm, depth 4.7 cm (Length 32 11/16 in., width 8 1/16 in., depth 1 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated by the Gibson Guitar Corporation
Accession Number2001.239
CollectionsAmericas, Musical Instruments
ClassificationsMusical instruments – Chordophones
DescriptionBody, neck, and headstock constructed from one piece of maple painted cream white. Access panel on back of hardboard painted black. Tuning machines of nickel silver with knobs of coral-colored plastic. Fingerboard of lucite, back-painted silver, with gold and coral colored dot fret markers. Twenty-nine frets. Hinged covers of plastic over pickup (coral colored) and peghead (silver and white). Cylindrical volume and tone knobs of clear plastic with gold-colored cores. Original hard-shell case.
InscriptionsInscribed on cover plates: Gibson [and] ULTRATONE
ProvenanceAbout 1990, sold by Gruhn Guitars, Nashville, Tennessee, to Walter Carter, Nashville, Tennessee; 2001, sold by Carter to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 25, 2001)
Western Swing improvisation, 2012
Composed by Kevin Barry
Performed by Kevin Barry