BTNRP · MS100589
Viola d'amore
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Description
Viola d'amore with viol outline (sloping shoulders, flat back) and flame-shaped soundholes. Spruce top. Back, ribs and neck made of maple. Ebony unfretted fingerboard and ebony nut. Ten rosewood pegs for five melody strings (one silver-wound, four gut) and five sympathetic strings (probably silver). The neck has a clearance groove for the sympathetic strings that run below the fingerboard. Festooned ebony tailpiece, with slanted top, red-painted tailgut, and ebony saddle. This instrument is part of the Albert C. Spencer collection.