Guitar

"Back in two pieces of Spanish cypress separated by a thin strip of darker wood. The sides are also of cypress. Belly of a single piece of spruce, double purfled with a darker wood. The soundhole is surrounded with a chequer pattern of inlaid mother-of-pearl and dark woods. The bridge is of the Spanish type and has holes for six double courses of strings. Under the lower part of the belly is a simple fan-barring of three radiating bars. This is light bracing in a star formation under the upper bout. The side linings are of individual blocks and the neck block is of a slipper pattern. A thin raised fingerboard of rosewood, with eighteen frets, is a later addition. The wide wedge-shaped head is trilled with twelve pegholes and a suspending hole." Anthony Baines, Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard instruments (London, 1998), pp. 59- 60.