Hammered Dulcimer
Unknown Artist
ca. 1815
Medium
Wood, paper, yarn, paint, horn
Dimensions
Dulcimer: longest side: 146.7 cm.; perpendicular to longest side: 37.8 cm.; D. 9.6 cm. Case: W. 159.5 cm; perpendicular 51.0 cm.; H. 73.7 cm.
Classification
Chordophone-Zither-struck-dulcimer
Culture
American
Department
Musical Instruments
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Rogers Fund, Bequest of Dorothy E. Swenson, by exchange, The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, by exchange, and George D. Skinner Gift, 1978
Accession Number
1978.369a–d