Large Viola d’amore in ‘C’ tuning with 7 playing strings and 14 sympathetic resonant strings, with decoration themed on the native australian Lyrebird, a bird known to mimic the sounds it hears.
Playing strings tuning (low to high): C-G-C-G-E-G-C
Materials: Plum and lemon wood staved back and ribs, Plum neck, spruce soundboard with a Rosette made from boxwood and parchment. Tortoiseshell and ivory (faux) marquetry on fingerboard and tailpiece. Ebony pegs & bone string nuts.
Gut strung with iron, steel and brass sympathetics.
