Viola.

Technical description: Soundboard of spruce; ribs, back, neck and head of sycamore; fingerboard and tail-gut protector of ebony; pegs and endpin of rosewood. Marks on the soundboard suggest the instrument at one time had a substantial bridge and may have originally been a type of viol. Those marks, with the current neck would give a string length of c345. The instrument is viol-shaped in both general appearance and in the arching. Arching of soundboard 14.5mm. Exaggerated f-holes. Ebony/sycamore/ebony purfling. One piece back of slab sawn, unfigured sycamore, 16mm arch. Ebony/sycamore/ebony purfling on back. plugged hole from the back into the heel. Golden varnish. The heel is larger than the back extension, which has been enlarged by added ebony. Well figured neck. Head has been grafted onto the neck. Neck length 141; fingerboard length 283, width at nut 24.3, at bottom 48.3. The head has been built up from a number of different pieces.Tailpiece incorporating 4 fine tuners.