Bandurria

"Heavily constructed body with back and sides of rosewood, with the shoulders carried upwards in two hollow, squared-off horns. The back is bent sharply backwards at the horns and at the lower end of the body, which is flat and provided with two ivory feet so that the instrument can stand unsupported. The thick bottom block is cut away centrally to allow for an inwardly sloped section of the lower part of the belly with twelve hitch-pins for the strings. The belly has three small open soundholes [surrounded by mother-of-pearl beeding], a thuya protector plate and a loose bridge. It has simple fan-barring on the underside." Anthony Baines, Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard instruments (London, 1998), pp. 41-42.