Guitar

'Variant form with scalloped outline. Back of two pieces of rosewood. Belly of two pieces of pine, with three small soundholes arranged in a triangle, each surrounded by inlaid decoration. The strings pass over a loose bridge to attachment at a fixed pin bridge placed immediately below. Neck block with slipper. The raised rosewood fingerboard has eighteen frets of flat brass and nine position dots. The broad wedge-shaped head has machines for six strings'. Anthony Baines, Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard instruments. (London, 1998), pp. 62-63.