Triple-necked guitar by Bernard Enzensperger, Vienna, 1833, ...

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£2,000 - £3,000

Triple-necked guitar by Bernard Enzensperger, Vienna, 1833, the one piece back and ribs of sycamore, the table and sound hole edged with multiple purfling, the main fingerboard with seventeen frets flanked by two unfretted fingerboards, the shaped head extending across all three necks with machine head tuning with ivorine pegs, the main neck with six strings, the subsidiary necks each with five strings, labelled 1835 K.K. privilegirte Akustik-gitarre No E 1584 Bernard Enzensperger bürgerlicher Guitarrren und Geigenmacher in Wien nächst dem Theater an der Wien No 24