Object Description

Maker unknown Germany, 18th c.Pine (belly, in one part, body, five staves); walnut (peg-box);wood, painted in black (neck);paper (glued on, rims of body, paper with letters for notes, neck) body in conical shape; peg-pox with round knob on the end; tuning device: peg for playing string in peg-box, for sympathetic string on a strip of walnut-wood below on the bellyone playing string (gut), one sympathetic string (outside)L. 1650 mm, 993 mm (belly), 1388 mm (string)Ancient holdingslnv. 1904.309.