Torban

Torban with additional diatonic treble strings plucked by the right little finger, as well as basses. Four double courses and four single strings on fingerboard, with twelve unstopped treble strings and four single bass courses to upper offset pegbox. Front two-piece, matched, of wide to fine grain; brown varnish; one bar above soundhole, three below; saw-kerfed liners; reinforcing patch on inside of front on treble-side. Lute-style bridge, offset, inlaid with notched diamond-shaped mother-of-pearl inlays. Neck of plain maple with inlaid strips of darker, reddish, wood; ebonised pegboxes; turned-back hook finial to offset peg-box; bone nut on main pegbox and ebonised wood nut on offset pegbox, with turned-back crescent-shaped ‘horn’ on bass side. Disc of mother-of-pearl. Tortoiseshell-veneered fingerboard.