Harp guitar

'Rounded body of three pieces, with an open slot in the centre piece, and closed at the bottom by a deep curved plate, the whole stained brown and bordered with rows of simulated pearl ornament. Belly painted cream-colour bordered with flowers, with a fretted rose and a fixed bridge. The neck is thinned at the back down the bass side. The slightly curved black-painted fingerboard has twelve ivory frets and a shaped flat head with ten rear pegs. The instrument is, however, strung with eight single strings of gut, the two centre pegs being functionless' - Anthony Baines: Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard instruments (London, 1998), pp. 66-67.