‘Lambert’ Small French style Viola d’amore

 

Maple Back and Ribs, Service wood Neck with carved head and decorative relief carving, Spruce soundboard and Ebony half edging on front and back.  Fingerboard & Tailpiece with ebony veneer, and pegs from solid ebony. Linseed Oil / Pine Resin Varnish.

7/7 Strings, String Length: 34.5cm

Based on an instrument by Jean Nicolas Lambert, Paris, 1772

This Viola d’amore is played by Annelies Decock, Belgium.