Guitar

"A large instrument with extra treble strings of wire. Back of rosewood decorated with a stylistic sun in various woods. Deep sides of walnut, decorated with inlaud fillets of light wood in wispy floral scrolls. Belly of a single piece of pine, inlaid with rosewood in geometrical, heraldic floral motifs and the inscription given above. Rose missing. The back of the short neck is decorated with a chequer pattern in various woods, The front of the neck is decorated to match the belly and has five brass frets. The wedge-shaped head has twelve rear pegs for six double courses running to a Spanish bridge on the belly. In addition ten double courses of wire strings run across the treble side of the belly to attachment at an oblique extension of the bridge. They are tuned by twenty rear pegs geld in a flat and curved extesion board fixed to the shoulder of the belly. The wires pass from these pegs under an iron wire bridge and over a curved wooden but which follows the contour of the side." Anthony Baines: Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard insturments. (London, 1998), pp. 61 - 62.