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'Maple back and pine belly, both flat and both overhanging the sides. The latter taper slightly towards the base of the instrument. The original inserted rose is missing. Iron hooks fastened to the base of the body receive the strings. The offset neck carries a thick, dark-stained wooden fingerboard which flies a short distance over the belly and has twelve brass frets (nos. 10, 11, 12 fractional). The theorbo-style upper pegbox has a simple rounded finial. The main pegbox is for four double courses of wire, the fourth string course being overspun. The upper head has ten pegs, for ten basses.' - Anthony Baines:Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard instruments (London, 1998), p. 47.