7/7 Viola d’amore - String length 37cm - Body length 39.5cm
Cherry Back and sides, Spruce front, Ebony veneered fingerboard and tailpiece.
Maple Neck with gilded and painted carved head.
Ebony Pegs, bone nuts and saddle, Linseed oil and pine resin varnish.
Silver tailpiece attachment, brass plated sympathetic attachment pins, ebony endpin.
Unsplit lamb gut and silver wound playing strings and twined brass and iron sympathetics.
Photos by Gareth Hacker, London.
