Category:Harpolyres

**Harpolyres**
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Gregg Miner (updated: February, 2012). Organology: Harp Guitar "Relatives" - Harpolyres. www.harpguitars.net.
" Note to the casual reader or researcher: This Reference Gallery features historical instruments that are not harp guitars, but “relatives” or distant “cousins” – presented on Harpguitars.net for historical and organological comparison. ",
" Harpolyre: Patented by Jean Francois Salomon in 1829 (and built by Andre Augustin Chevrier, according to the BMFA), this is a very interesting instrument, and a difficult one to classify. Since it is fully fretted, it cannot technically qualify as a "true" harp guitar by any definition. Yet it was clearly designed to be played very much like an intricate harp guitar. ... Nor is it a "triple-neck" guitar, nor a type of lyre guitar. ... "
André Augustin Chevrier (ca. 1830). [1992.117.1, .2] Harpo-lyre. Mirecourt, France. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, since 1992, Accession Number: 1992.117.1, .2 , ObjectID: 180015204.
" Maker: André Augustin Chevrier (French, Mirecourt active 1820–1842 Brussels) ",
" [Description] This three-necked instrument features a central neck tuned like a conventional guitar (E-A-d-g-b-e'), plus a neck on the left tuned chromatically (A-B flat-B-c-d flat-d-e flat) and one on the right tuned diatonically (c'-d'-e'-f'-g'-a'-b'-c2). The back and sides are of figured walnut. Ormolu (mercury-gilded brass) mounts decorate the yoke of the guitar. "

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