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6 double courses, without frets. Body: 19 ribs; the top rib is a reinforcing strip. Belly: unvarnished pine; the fixed endbar has a top section of strips of rosewood, box and ebony laid longitudinally, with 5 pairs of holes for double courses of strings to be knotted through; fixed to the belly a tortoise-shell plate with shield-shaped ends, between the endbar and the soundhole; also between the plate and the soundhole is a pierced hole. Fingerboard: bone. Nut: ivory. Head: gently curved, angled at ca 130°; 10 lateral pegs (?oak), with ivory knob at the ends. Finial: square; on an ebony block, a convex-sided square of ebony with an ebony pin protruding as a knob. Length 780, body 470, width 370, depth 210