Viola d'Amore pochette

French

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Description: Shallow case with flat back. Reddish-Brown varnish. The blocks without sharp angles, the sound-board edged with ebony and ivory inlay. Flaming sound-holes. The tail-piece with sloping top; peg-box with twelve ivory pegs, terminating in a carved female head. Six melody strings and six sympathetic strings, passing under the keyboard, are fastened to ivory pins at the bottom of the instrument. To the instrument is attached a miniature bow

Viola d'Amore pochette, Wood, ebony, ivory, French

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