Pedal harp

'Round back of birchwood, painted, and with five slot-shaped soundholes. Pine belly painted with a recurrent scroll-pattern in gold on Prussian blue; this design is painted all over the instrument. Fluted pillar with corinthian capital and large Grecian scroll. The front of the base is supported by a pair of claw feet. The heavy neck is of four parallel steel plates housing a double-action mechanism with fourchettes. There are eight pedals and forty-three strings.' - Anthony Baines, Catalogue of Musical INstruments in the Victoria & Albert Museum, Part II. Non-Keyboard Instruments.(Reprint, 1998).