viola d'amore
Description: viola d'amore, with case and bow, scroll carved in the shape of Moorish female head. Fourteen pegs in place, smaller pegs near head, increasing in size, each peg has white circular knob on its end. Dark wood fingerboard seven playing strings, seven sympathetic (resonating) strings which run through the bridge and under the finger board into separate pegs in the peg box , flaming sword sound holes
Collection: HUMAN HISTORYAccession Number: 1998.60.9.1Accession Date: 10 Oct 1998Description: viola d'amore, with case and bow, scroll carved in the shape of Moorish female head. Fourteen pegs in place, smaller pegs near head, increasing in size, each peg has white…