Wooden guitar, reportedly belonging to Robert Burns

Key details

Object number: 3.4565
Date: 1757
On display: Yes
Maker: Rauche & Hoffmann

Description

Wooden guittar (an early form of the modern guitar), with bulbous shaped body and tapered handle reportedly belonging to Robert Burns. Missing guitar strings.

Robert Burns is also known to have owned a fiddle, a stock-and-horn (a simple woodwind instrument made of animal bone) and a flute.

Based on its dating, this object is one of the earliest known English style guittar in any Scottish collection.

Object information

Material

Wood

Measurements

Depth: 7(cm)
Height: 73(cm)
Width: 27(cm)

Place of creation

London

Themes

Myths and Folklore
Music And Song

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