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Harp
Jones, Bassett
(Harp maker)
Single harp. The harp has 32 holes for strings, four octaves and no device for semitones. Pencil inscriptions on base. Inscribed in pencil on base is ‘Made by Bassett Jones (Cardiff) and E. Williams Bridgend, 1856’. Bassett Jones was a famous nineteenth-century harp-maker who worked on Smith Street, Cardiff.
Collection Area
Social & Cultural History
Item Number
F75.221.1
Creation/Production
Acquisition
Purchase, 1975
Measurements
Height
(mm): 1350
Length
(mm): 930 (of sound box)
overall
(mm): 610
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