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rotte

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  • Other Name

    Germanic lyre

  • Description

    rotte, six string lyre, cedar belly and Queensland walnut arms, crossbar, back and bridge, six nylon strings and six metal pegs

    1 rotte

    Robert C White, Petone, Wellington, New Zealand, circa 1977

    Australian walnut, cedar, rosewood, gut, 800 x 210 x 60 mm

    1998.60.278 Castle 423

    This Germanic lyre is a plucked instrument which evolved from the ancient lyre.

    According to the Castles, this rotte is based on a 4-8th century six-stringed instrument found during an archaeological dig of a warrior’s grave in the Black Forest. They had it reconstructed from an illustration found in early music historian, Francis Galpin’s Old English Instruments.

  • Place
    Petone/Wellington/New Zealand
  • Accession Number
    1998.60.278
  • Accession Date
    10 Oct 1998
  • Other Id

    423 (Castle)

  • Department

    Applied Arts and Design

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