File:Jimmy Page's ca.1962 Harmony Sovereign H1260 (serial no. 9631111260) - Play It Loud. MET (2019-05-13 19.10.28 by Eden, Janine and Jim).jpg

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'Stairway to Heaven' Guitar

Jimmy Page's ca.1962 Harmony Sovereign H1260 (serial no. 9631111260) - Play It Loud. MET (2019-05-13 19.10.28 by Eden, Janine and Jim)

  • Sovereign H1260 (ca.1962, serial # 9631111260), The Harmony Company. Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
    "​This acoustic guitar is one of Page’s main songwriting instruments. He used it to compose material on the first four Led Zeppelin albums, to record the majority of Led Zeppelin III (1970), and to record the acoustic parts of "Stairway to Heaven." It remains in use today. ",
    "​Technical Description: Flat top with round sound hole; spruce top, mahogany back, sides, and neck, rosewood fingerboard; 25 in. scale; natural finish with six-ply white and black binding; set neck with dot inlays and white binding; gold script Harmony logo, white Sovereign logo, and crown and coat-of-arms decals on headstock; metal tuning machines with plastic heads, rosewood bridge, tear-shaped tortoiseshell plastic pickguard ",
    "​Object Details ",
    "​Title:  Sovereign H1260, serial # 9631111260 ",
    "​Artist: The Harmony Company ",
    "​Artist: Jimmy Page (British, Heston, born 1944) ",
    "​Date:   ca. 1962 ",
    "​Medium: Spruce, mahogany, rosewood, metal, plastic ",
    "​Dimensions: Length: 41 in. (104.1 cm) / Width: 16 1/4 in. (41.3 cm) / Depth: 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm) / Weight: 5-6 lbs. ",
    "​Classification: Chordophone-Lute-plucked-fretted ",
    "​Credit Line: Collection of Jimmy Page ",
    "​Provenance: Jimmy Page, circa 1962 "
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Source 'Stairway to Heaven' Guitar
Author Eden, Janine and Jim from New York City
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" "Instruments of Rock & Roll" show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art "

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