http://collections.mfa.org/internal/media/dispatcher/783598/resize%3Aformat%3DfullBowed zither1879Josef Ferdinand SprengerMaple, spruce, ebonyShallow sound-box of modified viol form. Back of two pieces of maple. Ribs of maple. Belly of pine with two narrow f-holes, purfled. Both back and belly with overhanging edges as on violins. Neck and peg-plate of maple. Ebony finger-board with twenty-nine brass frets. Three ivory pegs at the back, serving a supporting points of instrument on a table. Five strings: the two higher ones of steel wire, the lower three of spun silk. Frontal type of string tuning end fastening; anterior pegs of round steel with square ends. Inside construction: no corner blocks (owning to the peculiar outline of body): sound-post; bass-bar on the left side (opposite to that of violin) owing to the higher strings being located on the right side of the instrument.Musical instruments2.8000000000 Centimeterhttp://collections.mfa.org/objects/50259/rdf