/internal/media/dispatcher/783598/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailBowed zither1879Josef Ferdinand SprengerLength 61 cm, width 27.2 cm (Length 24 in., width 10 11/16 in.)Maple, spruce, ebonyLeslie Lindsey Mason Collection17.17240Shallow 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 instruments2.80000000005025901