Baryton

Belly of pine, with 'flame' holes and with double purfling forming small decorative knots at the indentations between the bottom lobes of the festooned body. Two-piece back with signs of a wax seal. At the base, a ferrule for resting the instrument on the floor, and a hook-bar. The pegbox is carved on the back with figures in relief. A carved triple lion's head forms the finial. On the treble side of the pegbox is a narrow cavity accommodating the boxwood pegs of the six playing strings, which run to a tailpiece in the shape of two savages, carved in wood stained black and partly gilt. The twenty-five wire sympathetic strings run from wrest pins in the main width of the pegbox, thence behind a pierced and carved neck and under a frame, across which is stretched some silk material, to their attachment on a fixed bridge glued obliquely to the belly. Some old holes into the pegbox show that this arrangement has been altered at some time.