BTNRP · MS100581
Viola d'amore
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Description
Viola d'amore with viol outline (sloping shoulders, flat back) and flamed-shaped soundholes. Spruce top. Back and ribs made of maple. Ebony nut and unfretted fingerboard with slightly slanted lower cut. Fourteen rosewood pegs for seven melody strings (two silver-wound, five gut) and seven sympathetic strings (silver?). The neck has a clearance groove for the sympathetic strings that run below the fingerboard. Festooned boxwood tailpiece, with slanted top, red-painted tailgut, and ebony saddle. This instrument is part of the Albert C. Spencer collection.