竖琴吉他 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	竖琴吉他
品名（英）	Harp Guitar
入馆年号	2007年，2007.323
策展部门	乐器（Musical Instruments）
创作者	Joseph Laurent Mast【1779 至 1830】【法国人】
创作年份	公元 1827
创作地区	法国, 图卢兹（France, Toulouse）
分类	长笛拨弦琴（Chordophone-Lute-plucked-fretted）
尺寸	高: 88.5 厘米 (34- 13/16 英寸)
介绍（中）	这种不寻常的乐器像吉他一样六根单弦，但像竖琴一样有几个身体特征。不寻常的云杉音板让人联想到竖琴的音板，但面向前方并与琴弦平行，而不是像踏板竖琴那样垂直于琴弦。音板后面是一个由弯曲的枫木制成的圆柱形主体。身体呈绿色，有两个椭圆形的音孔。琴身的宽阔下端放在平板上，使乐器能够独立站立。竖琴状柱高88.5厘米，有凹槽。顶部是一个圆形檐口。竖琴的六根琴弦穿过一个扇形的指板，指板上镶嵌着十七个镍银品。在顶部，琴弦连接到带有方形头的铁针上，需要特殊的扳手来调谐。在音板上，琴弦以销桥终止，挂钩销定义发声长度的末端。虽然该乐器只有 6 根琴颈弦，但作为标准吉他，由于其形式将其标记为"竖琴吉他"是很自然的。其他出处来自第二种乐器，标记为"Mast-fils"（J. L. Mast的儿子），儿子实际上包括四根额外的浮动弦，就像真正的竖琴吉他一样。这件乐器的照片出现在 1910 年一位 Baron de Léry 收藏的拍卖目录中，其中它被列为"Tres curieuse 竖琴吉他帝国桅杆菲尔斯，图卢兹"（非常好奇的帝国竖琴吉他由马斯特的儿子在图卢兹）。由于这个词对于拍卖公司来说似乎太具体了，以至于拍卖公司自己发明了它，也许这种形式的吉他 - 无论是用6根弦还是额外的弦串起来 - 都被其制造商命名为"帝国竖琴吉他"。（格雷格矿工，2021 年）
介绍（英）	This unusual instrument six single strings like a guitar, but has several body features like a harp. The unusual spruce soundboard is reminscient of that of a harp, but faces forward and is parallel to the strings, instead of sitting perpendicular to the strings as on a pedal harp. Behind the soundboard is a cylindrical body made of bent maple. The body is stained green and has two oval sound holes. The wide, lower end of the body rests on a flat plate that allows the instrument to stand on its own. The harp-like column measures 88.5 cm in height and is fluted. At the top is a circular cornice. The six strings of the harp pass over a scalloped fingerboard with seventeen inlaid frets of nickel silver. At the top, the strings are attached to iron pins with square heads that require a special wrench to be tuned. On the soundboard, the strings terminate with a pin bridge, with hitch pins defining the end of the sounding length. Though the instrument has only 6 neck strings, as a standard guitar, labelling it a "harp guitar" due to its form is only natural. Additional provenance comes from a second instrument labelled "Mast-fils" (son of J. L. Mast) where the son actually included four additional floating strings, as in the true harp guitar. The instrument is pictured in a 1910 auction catalog of the collection of one Baron de Léry, where it is listed as ""Tres curieuse harpe-guitare Empire de Mast fils, a Toulouse" (Very curious Empire harp-guitar by Mast’s son, in Toulouse). As the term seems too specific for the auction company to have invented it themselves, it is perhaps probable that this form of guitar - whether strung with 6 strings or additional strings　 - was named the "Empire harp-guitar" by its maker. (Gregg Miner, 2021)