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Viola d'amore
Viola d'amore. The instrument and bridge varnished a dark brown colour. The peg-box for six machine heads is surmounted by a reverse corckscrew scroll. Three bowed strings (all missing). Three wire sympathetic strings run under the fingerboard, through holes in the bridge, and are attached to tuning pins set into the base of the instrument above the end-pin. Labelled inside the back 'Fabe Chateaureynaud Constantinople'.
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before 1898 - Maker:
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Horniman Museum and Gardens - Inventory number:
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Istanbul (Timezone: Europe/Istanbul) - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:321.322-71 Necked box lutes or necked guitars sounded by bowing with a bow
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- Materials:metal, ivory, paint, metalT, iron, wood
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:321.322-71 Necked box lutes or necked guitars sounded by bowing with a bow
- Repository:Horniman Museum and Gardens
- Measurements:overall: 670 x 220 x 210 mm