Lombardic mandolin

Small lute-shaped, plucked stringed instrument with ribbed back and flat soundboard. It has a one-piece spruce top with an oval-shaped soundhole, and the back is made of alternated ribs of light and dark brown wood. The fretboard is scalloped has 20 nickel-silver frets, and an ivory nut. There are six friction tuning pegs (one not original) with six strings (two silver-wound, two nylon and two gut…