Harp-guitar

'Rounded body of three pieces with a curved piece closing the bottom, all stained as 13/5 [Harp-Guitar by Clementi & Co (Museum no. 243-1882)]. Belly with simple painted borders of black and gold, and with a fretted rose identical with 13/5 and a pin bridge topped by an ivory bar which slants up to the treble side. The neck is thinned down the bass side, and the seventeen frets on the flat finger board are of brass T-section fret wire. The wide Spanish-guitar type of head has eight machines. Of the eight gut strings, the two on the bass side are separated by a small extra distance from the others.' - Anthony Baines: Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard instruments (London, 1998), p. 67