Triple harp

"A high-headed harp with back of nine ribs of sycamore. Rising belly of pine, framed with scallop-shell and floral scroll painted decoration in gold with blcak detail. The six small soundholes in the belly are each surrounded with painted wreaths in gold, picked out in black. The string holes are shod with metal, The post is japanned black with gilt chinoeries. Its finial is meeing. The neck is richly carved with a mask and floral ornament and with a human head close to the sound box, and partly gilt. The strings, tunedo on the left side of the neck, include: right-hand row, thirty four strings, middle row twenty-nine, the shortest being located just below the sixth of the first row; the left-hand row twenty-five, the shortest opposite the eleventh of the first row." (Baines, Anthony. Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard insturments. London, 1998, pp. 76 - 77.)