Guitars - Revision history

http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Guitars&action=history&feed=atom Guitars - Revision history 2013-05-18T18:03:18Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.8.2 http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Guitars&diff=11164&oldid=prev Bcraig at 13:46, 10 December 2009 2009-12-10T13:46:10Z

<p></p> <table border='0' width='98%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='4' style="background-color: white;"> <tr> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">Revision as of 13:46, 10 December 2009</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 10:</strong></td> <td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 10:</strong></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">==Footnotes==</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">==Footnotes==</td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"><references/></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"><references/></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">==See Also==</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">*[[Cittern]]</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">[[Category:Music]]</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">[[Category:Music]]</td></tr> </table>

Bcraig http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Guitars&diff=8969&oldid=prev ABerkes at 16:40, 5 March 2009 2009-03-05T16:40:05Z

<p></p> <table border='0' width='98%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='4' style="background-color: white;"> <tr> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">Revision as of 16:40, 5 March 2009</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 1:</strong></td> <td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 1:</strong></td></tr> <tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;">[[Image:cittern.jpg|thumb|Photo of cittern (English guitar) by Edward Owen]]<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">It seems that a number of </span>members of [[Thomas Jefferson|Thomas Jefferson's]] family played the '''guitar'''.<ref>This article is based on Lucia Stanton, Monticello Research Report, March 1993.</ref> When in [[Philadelphia]] in 1776, Jefferson purchased "guitar strings" from merchant Michael Hillegas. <ref>[[Short Title List| MB]] 31 August 1776.</ref>. Since he did not specify that they were bought for someone outside his household, it is probable they were for his wife, [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson]]. There is no record of what type of guitar she might have played; she was also an accomplished keyboard player. </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">[[Image:cittern.jpg|thumb|Photo of cittern (English guitar) by Edward Owen]]</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Several </span>members of [[Thomas Jefferson|Thomas Jefferson's]] family played the '''guitar'''.<ref>This article is based on Lucia Stanton, Monticello Research Report, March 1993.</ref> When in [[Philadelphia]] in 1776, Jefferson purchased "guitar strings" from merchant Michael Hillegas. <ref>[[Short Title List| <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">''</span>MB<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">''</span>]] 31 August 1776.</ref>. Since he did not specify that they were bought for someone outside his household, it is probable they were for his wife, [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson]]. There is no record of what type of guitar she might have played; she was also an accomplished keyboard player. </td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;">In 1788, when Jefferson and his daughters lived in [[Paris]], he bought <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">"</span>a guitar<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">" </span>from an unknown source for eighty-four livres (then the equivalent of fourteen dollars) for his ten-year-old daughter [[Mary Jefferson Eppes|Maria]].<ref>[[Short Title List|MB]] 5 September 1788.</ref> <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">There are various payments for a "guitar master" until the Jeffersons' departure in the fall of 1789. They arrived back in Virginia in December 1789. </span>This was probably the Spanish guitar which returned to Monticello in 1824. Jefferson's granddaughter Virginia Randolph described it as belonging formerly to her "Aunt [[Mary Jefferson Eppes|Maria]]...It appears to be a very sweet toned instrument, and looks all spanish."</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">In 1788, when Jefferson and his daughters lived in [[Paris]], he bought a guitar from an unknown source for eighty-four livres (then the equivalent of fourteen dollars) for his ten-year-old daughter [[Mary Jefferson Eppes|Maria]].<ref>[[Short Title List|MB]] 5 September 1788.</ref> This was probably the Spanish guitar which returned to Monticello in 1824. Jefferson's granddaughter Virginia Randolph described it as belonging formerly to her "Aunt [[Mary Jefferson Eppes|Maria]]...It appears to be a very sweet toned instrument, and looks all spanish." <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"> There are also various payments for a "guitar master" until the Jeffersons' departure from Paris in the fall of 1789. </span></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;">[[Image:spanish_guitar_sm.jpg|left|thumb|Detail from a document believed to be in Jefferson's hand on "finger board Spanish Guitar"]]In 1816, Jefferson purchased a guitar from a departing neighbor, Robert Sthreshly, for $30.<ref>[[Short Title List| MB]] 4 March 1816.</ref>. He gave it to his granddaughter Virginia, then fourteen. Many years later she recalled this unexpected gratification of her "greatest desire" to have a guitar.<ref>[[Short Title List|Randolph]], 348.</ref> This guitar is presumably the ten-string English guitar presently in the Monticello collection.</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">[[Image:spanish_guitar_sm.jpg|left|thumb|Detail from a document believed to be in Jefferson's hand on "finger board Spanish Guitar"]]</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;"> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">In 1816, Jefferson purchased a guitar from a departing neighbor, Robert Sthreshly, for $30.<ref>[[Short Title List| MB]] 4 March 1816.</ref>. He gave it to his granddaughter Virginia, then fourteen. Many years later she recalled this unexpected gratification of her "greatest desire" to have a guitar.<ref>[[Short Title List|Randolph]], 348.</ref> This guitar is presumably the ten-string English guitar presently in the Monticello collection.</td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">==Footnotes==</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">==Footnotes==</td></tr> </table>

ABerkes http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Guitars&diff=7719&oldid=prev Bcraig at 19:05, 13 October 2008 2008-10-13T19:05:54Z

<p></p> <table border='0' width='98%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='4' style="background-color: white;"> <tr> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">Revision as of 19:05, 13 October 2008</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 1:</strong></td> <td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 1:</strong></td></tr> <tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;">[[Image:cittern.jpg|thumb|Photo of cittern (English guitar) by Edward Owen]]It seems that a number of members of [[Thomas Jefferson|Thomas Jefferson's]] family played the '''guitar'''.<ref>This article is based on Lucia Stanton, Monticello Research Report, March 1993.</ref> When in Philadelphia in 1776, Jefferson purchased "guitar strings" from merchant Michael Hillegas. <ref>[[Short Title List| MB]] 31 August 1776.</ref>. Since he did not specify that they were bought for someone outside his household, it is probable they were for his wife, [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson]]. There is no record of what type of guitar she might have played; she was also an accomplished keyboard player. </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">[[Image:cittern.jpg|thumb|Photo of cittern (English guitar) by Edward Owen]]It seems that a number of members of [[Thomas Jefferson|Thomas Jefferson's]] family played the '''guitar'''.<ref>This article is based on Lucia Stanton, Monticello Research Report, March 1993.</ref> When in <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">[[</span>Philadelphia<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">]] </span>in 1776, Jefferson purchased "guitar strings" from merchant Michael Hillegas. <ref>[[Short Title List| MB]] 31 August 1776.</ref>. Since he did not specify that they were bought for someone outside his household, it is probable they were for his wife, [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson]]. There is no record of what type of guitar she might have played; she was also an accomplished keyboard player. </td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">In 1788, when Jefferson and his daughters lived in [[Paris]], he bought "a guitar" from an unknown source for eighty-four livres (then the equivalent of fourteen dollars) for his ten-year-old daughter [[Mary Jefferson Eppes|Maria]].<ref>[[Short Title List|MB]] 5 September 1788.</ref> There are various payments for a "guitar master" until the Jeffersons' departure in the fall of 1789. They arrived back in Virginia in December 1789. This was probably the Spanish guitar which returned to Monticello in 1824. Jefferson's granddaughter Virginia Randolph described it as belonging formerly to her "Aunt [[Mary Jefferson Eppes|Maria]]...It appears to be a very sweet toned instrument, and looks all spanish."</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">In 1788, when Jefferson and his daughters lived in [[Paris]], he bought "a guitar" from an unknown source for eighty-four livres (then the equivalent of fourteen dollars) for his ten-year-old daughter [[Mary Jefferson Eppes|Maria]].<ref>[[Short Title List|MB]] 5 September 1788.</ref> There are various payments for a "guitar master" until the Jeffersons' departure in the fall of 1789. They arrived back in Virginia in December 1789. This was probably the Spanish guitar which returned to Monticello in 1824. Jefferson's granddaughter Virginia Randolph described it as belonging formerly to her "Aunt [[Mary Jefferson Eppes|Maria]]...It appears to be a very sweet toned instrument, and looks all spanish."</td></tr> </table>

Bcraig http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Guitars&diff=7609&oldid=prev Bcraig at 18:35, 8 October 2008 2008-10-08T18:35:37Z

<p></p> <table border='0' width='98%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='4' style="background-color: white;"> <tr> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">Revision as of 18:35, 8 October 2008</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 1:</strong></td> <td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 1:</strong></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">[[Image:cittern.jpg|thumb|Photo of cittern (English guitar) by Edward Owen]]It seems that a number of members of [[Thomas Jefferson|Thomas Jefferson's]] family played the '''guitar'''.<ref>This article is based on Lucia Stanton, Monticello Research Report, March 1993.</ref> When in Philadelphia in 1776, Jefferson purchased "guitar strings" from merchant Michael Hillegas. <ref>[[Short Title List| MB]] 31 August 1776.</ref>. Since he did not specify that they were bought for someone outside his household, it is probable they were for his wife, [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson]]. There is no record of what type of guitar she might have played; she was also an accomplished keyboard player. </td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">[[Image:cittern.jpg|thumb|Photo of cittern (English guitar) by Edward Owen]]It seems that a number of members of [[Thomas Jefferson|Thomas Jefferson's]] family played the '''guitar'''.<ref>This article is based on Lucia Stanton, Monticello Research Report, March 1993.</ref> When in Philadelphia in 1776, Jefferson purchased "guitar strings" from merchant Michael Hillegas. <ref>[[Short Title List| MB]] 31 August 1776.</ref>. Since he did not specify that they were bought for someone outside his household, it is probable they were for his wife, [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson]]. There is no record of what type of guitar she might have played; she was also an accomplished keyboard player. </td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;">In 1788, when Jefferson and his daughters lived in Paris, he bought "a guitar" from an unknown source for eighty-four livres (then the equivalent of fourteen dollars) for his ten-year-old daughter [[Mary Jefferson Eppes|Maria]].<ref>[[Short Title List|MB]] 5 September 1788.</ref> There are various payments for a "guitar master" until the Jeffersons' departure in the fall of 1789. They arrived back in Virginia in December 1789. This was probably the Spanish guitar which returned to Monticello in 1824. Jefferson's granddaughter Virginia Randolph described it as belonging formerly to her "Aunt [[Mary Jefferson Eppes|Maria]]...It appears to be a very sweet toned instrument, and looks all spanish."</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">In 1788, when Jefferson and his daughters lived in <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">[[</span>Paris<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">]]</span>, he bought "a guitar" from an unknown source for eighty-four livres (then the equivalent of fourteen dollars) for his ten-year-old daughter [[Mary Jefferson Eppes|Maria]].<ref>[[Short Title List|MB]] 5 September 1788.</ref> There are various payments for a "guitar master" until the Jeffersons' departure in the fall of 1789. They arrived back in Virginia in December 1789. This was probably the Spanish guitar which returned to Monticello in 1824. Jefferson's granddaughter Virginia Randolph described it as belonging formerly to her "Aunt [[Mary Jefferson Eppes|Maria]]...It appears to be a very sweet toned instrument, and looks all spanish."</td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">[[Image:spanish_guitar_sm.jpg|left|thumb|Detail from a document believed to be in Jefferson's hand on "finger board Spanish Guitar"]]In 1816, Jefferson purchased a guitar from a departing neighbor, Robert Sthreshly, for $30.<ref>[[Short Title List| MB]] 4 March 1816.</ref>. He gave it to his granddaughter Virginia, then fourteen. Many years later she recalled this unexpected gratification of her "greatest desire" to have a guitar.<ref>[[Short Title List|Randolph]], 348.</ref> This guitar is presumably the ten-string English guitar presently in the Monticello collection.</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">[[Image:spanish_guitar_sm.jpg|left|thumb|Detail from a document believed to be in Jefferson's hand on "finger board Spanish Guitar"]]In 1816, Jefferson purchased a guitar from a departing neighbor, Robert Sthreshly, for $30.<ref>[[Short Title List| MB]] 4 March 1816.</ref>. He gave it to his granddaughter Virginia, then fourteen. Many years later she recalled this unexpected gratification of her "greatest desire" to have a guitar.<ref>[[Short Title List|Randolph]], 348.</ref> This guitar is presumably the ten-string English guitar presently in the Monticello collection.</td></tr> </table>

Bcraig http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Guitars&diff=6773&oldid=prev Bcraig: Add Internal links 2008-06-09T16:15:57Z

<p>Add Internal links</p> <table border='0' width='98%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='4' style="background-color: white;"> <tr> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">Revision as of 16:15, 9 June 2008</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 1:</strong></td> <td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 1:</strong></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">[[Image:cittern.jpg|thumb|Photo of cittern (English guitar) by Edward Owen]]It seems that a number of members of [[Thomas Jefferson|Thomas Jefferson's]] family played the '''guitar'''.<ref>This article is based on Lucia Stanton, Monticello Research Report, March 1993.</ref> When in Philadelphia in 1776, Jefferson purchased "guitar strings" from merchant Michael Hillegas. <ref>[[Short Title List| MB]] 31 August 1776.</ref>. Since he did not specify that they were bought for someone outside his household, it is probable they were for his wife, [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson]]. There is no record of what type of guitar she might have played; she was also an accomplished keyboard player. </td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">[[Image:cittern.jpg|thumb|Photo of cittern (English guitar) by Edward Owen]]It seems that a number of members of [[Thomas Jefferson|Thomas Jefferson's]] family played the '''guitar'''.<ref>This article is based on Lucia Stanton, Monticello Research Report, March 1993.</ref> When in Philadelphia in 1776, Jefferson purchased "guitar strings" from merchant Michael Hillegas. <ref>[[Short Title List| MB]] 31 August 1776.</ref>. Since he did not specify that they were bought for someone outside his household, it is probable they were for his wife, [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson]]. There is no record of what type of guitar she might have played; she was also an accomplished keyboard player. </td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;">In 1788, when Jefferson and his daughters lived in Paris, he bought "a guitar" from an unknown source for eighty-four livres (then the equivalent of fourteen dollars) for his ten-year-old daughter Maria.<ref>[[Short Title List|MB]] 5 September 1788.</ref> There are various payments for a "guitar master" until the Jeffersons' departure in the fall of 1789. They arrived back in Virginia in December 1789. This was probably the Spanish guitar which returned to Monticello in 1824. Jefferson's granddaughter Virginia Randolph described it as belonging formerly to her "Aunt Maria <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">. </span>. . . It appears to be a very sweet toned instrument, and looks all spanish."</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">In 1788, when Jefferson and his daughters lived in Paris, he bought "a guitar" from an unknown source for eighty-four livres (then the equivalent of fourteen dollars) for his ten-year-old daughter <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">[[Mary Jefferson Eppes|</span>Maria<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">]]</span>.<ref>[[Short Title List|MB]] 5 September 1788.</ref> There are various payments for a "guitar master" until the Jeffersons' departure in the fall of 1789. They arrived back in Virginia in December 1789. This was probably the Spanish guitar which returned to Monticello in 1824. Jefferson's granddaughter Virginia Randolph described it as belonging formerly to her "Aunt <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">[[Mary Jefferson Eppes|</span>Maria<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">]]</span>...It appears to be a very sweet toned instrument, and looks all spanish."</td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">[[Image:spanish_guitar_sm.jpg|left|thumb|Detail from a document believed to be in Jefferson's hand on "finger board Spanish Guitar"]]In 1816, Jefferson purchased a guitar from a departing neighbor, Robert Sthreshly, for $30.<ref>[[Short Title List| MB]] 4 March 1816.</ref>. He gave it to his granddaughter Virginia, then fourteen. Many years later she recalled this unexpected gratification of her "greatest desire" to have a guitar.<ref>[[Short Title List|Randolph]], 348.</ref> This guitar is presumably the ten-string English guitar presently in the Monticello collection.</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">[[Image:spanish_guitar_sm.jpg|left|thumb|Detail from a document believed to be in Jefferson's hand on "finger board Spanish Guitar"]]In 1816, Jefferson purchased a guitar from a departing neighbor, Robert Sthreshly, for $30.<ref>[[Short Title List| MB]] 4 March 1816.</ref>. He gave it to his granddaughter Virginia, then fourteen. Many years later she recalled this unexpected gratification of her "greatest desire" to have a guitar.<ref>[[Short Title List|Randolph]], 348.</ref> This guitar is presumably the ten-string English guitar presently in the Monticello collection.</td></tr> </table>

Bcraig http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Guitars&diff=6208&oldid=prev Chad at 16:33, 27 February 2008 2008-02-27T16:33:47Z

<p></p> <table border='0' width='98%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='4' style="background-color: white;"> <tr> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">Revision as of 16:33, 27 February 2008</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 3:</strong></td> <td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 3:</strong></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">In 1788, when Jefferson and his daughters lived in Paris, he bought "a guitar" from an unknown source for eighty-four livres (then the equivalent of fourteen dollars) for his ten-year-old daughter Maria.<ref>[[Short Title List|MB]] 5 September 1788.</ref> There are various payments for a "guitar master" until the Jeffersons' departure in the fall of 1789. They arrived back in Virginia in December 1789. This was probably the Spanish guitar which returned to Monticello in 1824. Jefferson's granddaughter Virginia Randolph described it as belonging formerly to her "Aunt Maria . . . . It appears to be a very sweet toned instrument, and looks all spanish."</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">In 1788, when Jefferson and his daughters lived in Paris, he bought "a guitar" from an unknown source for eighty-four livres (then the equivalent of fourteen dollars) for his ten-year-old daughter Maria.<ref>[[Short Title List|MB]] 5 September 1788.</ref> There are various payments for a "guitar master" until the Jeffersons' departure in the fall of 1789. They arrived back in Virginia in December 1789. This was probably the Spanish guitar which returned to Monticello in 1824. Jefferson's granddaughter Virginia Randolph described it as belonging formerly to her "Aunt Maria . . . . It appears to be a very sweet toned instrument, and looks all spanish."</td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;">In 1816, Jefferson purchased a guitar from a departing neighbor, Robert Sthreshly, for $30.<ref>[[Short Title List| MB]] 4 March 1816.</ref>. He gave it to his granddaughter Virginia, then fourteen. Many years later she recalled this unexpected gratification of her "greatest desire" to have a guitar.<ref>[[Short Title List|Randolph]], 348.</ref> This guitar is presumably the ten-string English guitar presently in the Monticello collection.</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">[[Image:spanish_guitar_sm.jpg|left|thumb|Detail from a document believed to be in Jefferson's hand on "finger board Spanish Guitar"]]</span>In 1816, Jefferson purchased a guitar from a departing neighbor, Robert Sthreshly, for $30.<ref>[[Short Title List| MB]] 4 March 1816.</ref>. He gave it to his granddaughter Virginia, then fourteen. Many years later she recalled this unexpected gratification of her "greatest desire" to have a guitar.<ref>[[Short Title List|Randolph]], 348.</ref> This guitar is presumably the ten-string English guitar presently in the Monticello collection.</td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">==Footnotes==</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">==Footnotes==</td></tr> </table>

Chad http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Guitars&diff=6207&oldid=prev Chad at 16:33, 27 February 2008 2008-02-27T16:33:11Z

<p></p> <table border='0' width='98%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='4' style="background-color: white;"> <tr> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">Revision as of 16:33, 27 February 2008</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 2:</strong></td> <td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 2:</strong></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">In 1788, when Jefferson and his daughters lived in Paris, he bought "a guitar" from an unknown source for eighty-four livres (then the equivalent of fourteen dollars) for his ten-year-old daughter Maria.<ref>[[Short Title List|MB]] 5 September 1788.</ref> There are various payments for a "guitar master" until the Jeffersons' departure in the fall of 1789. They arrived back in Virginia in December 1789. This was probably the Spanish guitar which returned to Monticello in 1824. Jefferson's granddaughter Virginia Randolph described it as belonging formerly to her "Aunt Maria . . . . It appears to be a very sweet toned instrument, and looks all spanish."</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">In 1788, when Jefferson and his daughters lived in Paris, he bought "a guitar" from an unknown source for eighty-four livres (then the equivalent of fourteen dollars) for his ten-year-old daughter Maria.<ref>[[Short Title List|MB]] 5 September 1788.</ref> There are various payments for a "guitar master" until the Jeffersons' departure in the fall of 1789. They arrived back in Virginia in December 1789. This was probably the Spanish guitar which returned to Monticello in 1824. Jefferson's granddaughter Virginia Randolph described it as belonging formerly to her "Aunt Maria . . . . It appears to be a very sweet toned instrument, and looks all spanish."</td></tr> <tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;"></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;">[[Image:spanish_guitar_sm.jpg|left|frame|Detail from a document believed to be in Jefferson's hand on "finger board Spanish Guitar"]]</td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">In 1816, Jefferson purchased a guitar from a departing neighbor, Robert Sthreshly, for $30.<ref>[[Short Title List| MB]] 4 March 1816.</ref>. He gave it to his granddaughter Virginia, then fourteen. Many years later she recalled this unexpected gratification of her "greatest desire" to have a guitar.<ref>[[Short Title List|Randolph]], 348.</ref> This guitar is presumably the ten-string English guitar presently in the Monticello collection.</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">In 1816, Jefferson purchased a guitar from a departing neighbor, Robert Sthreshly, for $30.<ref>[[Short Title List| MB]] 4 March 1816.</ref>. He gave it to his granddaughter Virginia, then fourteen. Many years later she recalled this unexpected gratification of her "greatest desire" to have a guitar.<ref>[[Short Title List|Randolph]], 348.</ref> This guitar is presumably the ten-string English guitar presently in the Monticello collection.</td></tr> </table>

Chad http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Guitars&diff=6206&oldid=prev Chad at 16:30, 27 February 2008 2008-02-27T16:30:42Z

<p></p> <table border='0' width='98%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='4' style="background-color: white;"> <tr> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">Revision as of 16:30, 27 February 2008</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 1:</strong></td> <td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 1:</strong></td></tr> <tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;">It seems that a number of members of [[Thomas Jefferson|Thomas Jefferson's]] family played the '''guitar'''.<ref>This article is based on Lucia Stanton, Monticello Research Report, March 1993.</ref> When in Philadelphia in 1776, Jefferson purchased "guitar strings" from merchant Michael Hillegas. <ref>[[Short Title List| MB]] 31 August 1776.</ref>. Since he did not specify that they were bought for someone outside his household, it is probable they were for his wife, [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson]]. There is no record of what type of guitar she might have played; she was also an accomplished keyboard player.</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">[[Image:cittern.jpg|thumb|Photo of cittern (English guitar) by Edward Owen]]</span>It seems that a number of members of [[Thomas Jefferson|Thomas Jefferson's]] family played the '''guitar'''.<ref>This article is based on Lucia Stanton, Monticello Research Report, March 1993.</ref> When in Philadelphia in 1776, Jefferson purchased "guitar strings" from merchant Michael Hillegas. <ref>[[Short Title List| MB]] 31 August 1776.</ref>. Since he did not specify that they were bought for someone outside his household, it is probable they were for his wife, [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson]]. There is no record of what type of guitar she might have played; she was also an accomplished keyboard player. </td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">In 1788, when Jefferson and his daughters lived in Paris, he bought "a guitar" from an unknown source for eighty-four livres (then the equivalent of fourteen dollars) for his ten-year-old daughter Maria.<ref>[[Short Title List|MB]] 5 September 1788.</ref> There are various payments for a "guitar master" until the Jeffersons' departure in the fall of 1789. They arrived back in Virginia in December 1789. This was probably the Spanish guitar which returned to Monticello in 1824. Jefferson's granddaughter Virginia Randolph described it as belonging formerly to her "Aunt Maria . . . . It appears to be a very sweet toned instrument, and looks all spanish."</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">In 1788, when Jefferson and his daughters lived in Paris, he bought "a guitar" from an unknown source for eighty-four livres (then the equivalent of fourteen dollars) for his ten-year-old daughter Maria.<ref>[[Short Title List|MB]] 5 September 1788.</ref> There are various payments for a "guitar master" until the Jeffersons' departure in the fall of 1789. They arrived back in Virginia in December 1789. This was probably the Spanish guitar which returned to Monticello in 1824. Jefferson's granddaughter Virginia Randolph described it as belonging formerly to her "Aunt Maria . . . . It appears to be a very sweet toned instrument, and looks all spanish."</td></tr> </table>

Chad http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Guitars&diff=6205&oldid=prev Chad at 16:29, 27 February 2008 2008-02-27T16:29:51Z

<p></p> <table border='0' width='98%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='4' style="background-color: white;"> <tr> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">Revision as of 16:29, 27 February 2008</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 1:</strong></td> <td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 1:</strong></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">It seems that a number of members of [[Thomas Jefferson|Thomas Jefferson's]] family played the '''guitar'''.<ref>This article is based on Lucia Stanton, Monticello Research Report, March 1993.</ref> When in Philadelphia in 1776, Jefferson purchased "guitar strings" from merchant Michael Hillegas. <ref>[[Short Title List| MB]] 31 August 1776.</ref>. Since he did not specify that they were bought for someone outside his household, it is probable they were for his wife, [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson]]. There is no record of what type of guitar she might have played; she was also an accomplished keyboard player.</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">It seems that a number of members of [[Thomas Jefferson|Thomas Jefferson's]] family played the '''guitar'''.<ref>This article is based on Lucia Stanton, Monticello Research Report, March 1993.</ref> When in Philadelphia in 1776, Jefferson purchased "guitar strings" from merchant Michael Hillegas. <ref>[[Short Title List| MB]] 31 August 1776.</ref>. Since he did not specify that they were bought for someone outside his household, it is probable they were for his wife, [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson]]. There is no record of what type of guitar she might have played; she was also an accomplished keyboard player.</td></tr> <tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;"></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;">[[Image:cittern.jpg|thumb|Photo of cittern (English guitar) by Edward Owen]]</td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">In 1788, when Jefferson and his daughters lived in Paris, he bought "a guitar" from an unknown source for eighty-four livres (then the equivalent of fourteen dollars) for his ten-year-old daughter Maria.<ref>[[Short Title List|MB]] 5 September 1788.</ref> There are various payments for a "guitar master" until the Jeffersons' departure in the fall of 1789. They arrived back in Virginia in December 1789. This was probably the Spanish guitar which returned to Monticello in 1824. Jefferson's granddaughter Virginia Randolph described it as belonging formerly to her "Aunt Maria . . . . It appears to be a very sweet toned instrument, and looks all spanish."</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">In 1788, when Jefferson and his daughters lived in Paris, he bought "a guitar" from an unknown source for eighty-four livres (then the equivalent of fourteen dollars) for his ten-year-old daughter Maria.<ref>[[Short Title List|MB]] 5 September 1788.</ref> There are various payments for a "guitar master" until the Jeffersons' departure in the fall of 1789. They arrived back in Virginia in December 1789. This was probably the Spanish guitar which returned to Monticello in 1824. Jefferson's granddaughter Virginia Randolph described it as belonging formerly to her "Aunt Maria . . . . It appears to be a very sweet toned instrument, and looks all spanish."</td></tr> </table>

Chad http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Guitars&diff=6196&oldid=prev Chad at 20:37, 26 February 2008 2008-02-26T20:37:44Z

<p></p> <table border='0' width='98%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='4' style="background-color: white;"> <tr> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">Revision as of 20:37, 26 February 2008</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 1:</strong></td> <td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 1:</strong></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">It seems that a number of members of [[Thomas Jefferson|Thomas Jefferson's]] family played the '''guitar'''.<ref>This article is based on Lucia Stanton, Monticello Research Report, March 1993.</ref> When in Philadelphia in 1776, Jefferson purchased "guitar strings" from merchant Michael Hillegas. <ref>[[Short Title List| MB]] 31 August 1776.</ref>. Since he did not specify that they were bought for someone outside his household, it is probable they were for his wife, [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson]]. There is no record of what type of guitar she might have played; she was also an accomplished keyboard player.</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">It seems that a number of members of [[Thomas Jefferson|Thomas Jefferson's]] family played the '''guitar'''.<ref>This article is based on Lucia Stanton, Monticello Research Report, March 1993.</ref> When in Philadelphia in 1776, Jefferson purchased "guitar strings" from merchant Michael Hillegas. <ref>[[Short Title List| MB]] 31 August 1776.</ref>. Since he did not specify that they were bought for someone outside his household, it is probable they were for his wife, [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson]]. There is no record of what type of guitar she might have played; she was also an accomplished keyboard player.</td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;">[[Image:cittern.jpg|<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">thumb</span>|Photo of cittern (English guitar) by Edward Owen]]</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">[[Image:cittern.jpg|<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">300|right</span>|Photo of cittern (English guitar) by Edward Owen]]</td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">In 1788, when Jefferson and his daughters lived in Paris, he bought "a guitar" from an unknown source for eighty-four livres (then the equivalent of fourteen dollars) for his ten-year-old daughter Maria.<ref>[[Short Title List|MB]] 5 September 1788.</ref> There are various payments for a "guitar master" until the Jeffersons' departure in the fall of 1789. They arrived back in Virginia in December 1789. This was probably the Spanish guitar which returned to Monticello in 1824. Jefferson's granddaughter Virginia Randolph described it as belonging formerly to her "Aunt Maria . . . . It appears to be a very sweet toned instrument, and looks all spanish."</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">In 1788, when Jefferson and his daughters lived in Paris, he bought "a guitar" from an unknown source for eighty-four livres (then the equivalent of fourteen dollars) for his ten-year-old daughter Maria.<ref>[[Short Title List|MB]] 5 September 1788.</ref> There are various payments for a "guitar master" until the Jeffersons' departure in the fall of 1789. They arrived back in Virginia in December 1789. This was probably the Spanish guitar which returned to Monticello in 1824. Jefferson's granddaughter Virginia Randolph described it as belonging formerly to her "Aunt Maria . . . . It appears to be a very sweet toned instrument, and looks all spanish."</td></tr> </table>

Chad