Zither

"A normal 'Salzburg-form' zither of its period. Body veneered with rosewood on pine, the edges trimmed with light-coloure stringing. The belly is decorated with marquetry in painted and engraved brass and mother-of-pearl depicting a peasant girl and a boy playing an instrument like this amid floral scrolls. There are three ball feet on the underside of the body. The fingerboard has twenty-nine frets and is traversed by five strings (two steel, one broass, two overspun) tund by four machines and one wrest pin. The twenty-seven overspun accompanying strings are tuned by wrest pins." Anthony Baines: Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria & Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard instruments by Anthony Baines (London, V & A), pp. 72 - 73.