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Maurer "Picasso" Harp Guitars by Gregg Miner I haven't begun to analyze this group yet., though Robert Hartman has done some of it in his books. This page includes all the specimens and images I have found. Thought: Did Dyer insist on uniform instruments from the Larson brothers? And did Maurer or they themselves figure that this was a creative model to experiment freely with? No two are alike!
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1912 Patent
This entire row has 6 sub-bass strings. |
This specimen appears to be most consistent with the patent, yet it has no second internal body. | The bass side of the body is increased. The arms arm slightly diverged. | The lower body differentiation is eliminated. The bass side is again large. A fancier bridge is used. The body proportions may be only due to camera angle. | |
| The necks are parallel or inclined towards each other. | The necks are very diverged. | |||
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| The lower body again follows the "guitar-within-a-guitar" outline. The bass side body profile is close to the original patent, but extends in a hollow arm, as in Dyers and Knutsens. | |
| 12 sub-bass strings - though I don't know where they hid the tuners! The "necks" are parallel. | 8 sub-bass strings with very custom tuners on a marvelous headstock. The "necks" are diverged. |
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