Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2009

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Musical Instruments: July 2008–June 2009


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Electric guitar (Dan Armstrong model)

1969–70
Ampeg Company
Overall: 97.2 x 33 x 3.2cm (38 1/4 x 13 x 1 1/4in.)
Plastic, maple, rosewood, ivory, steel, aluminum, nickel silver

Classification: Musical instruments

Object Place: Linden, New Jersey, United States

Accession number: 2009.2416

Provenance/Ownership History: By 1990, Gruhn Guitars, Nashville, Tennessee; May 1, 1990, sold by Gruhn Guitars to Michael Wright, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 2009, sold by Wright to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 27, 2009)

Museum purchase with funds donated by The Kittredge Foundation, Michael and Lisa Kittredge, Trustees, 2009