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| New York's Metropolitan Art Museum |
An art museum-even a world-class one like New York's Metropolitan Art Museum would seem to be an odd place for a musical instrument collection. Having said that I was pleasantly surprised to find an excellent historical music instrument collection including some outstanding examples of 17th, 18th, and 19th century guitars.
Below are photos I made of some of the guitars at a spring 2010 visit of the Metropolitan Art Museum.
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| A c. 1630's guitar by Matteo Sellas of Venice, Italy |
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| A close-up of the Sellas guitar |
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| Intricate work of the Sellas rosetta and parchment rose. |
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| A late 17th Century Jacob Ertel guitar |
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| A close-up view of a 1697 Jean Baptiste Voboam guitar. |
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| The back of the Voboam guitar |
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| A 1937 Hermann Hauser guitar. I have always been a huge fan of Hauser guitars! |
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| Here's a real oddity- a guitar with an armadillo shell back. |
