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Description: | Mayuri or ta'us, a dilruba (fiddle) in the shape of a peacock. The wooden head and neck of the peacock are detached in performance. The slightly waisted body has a white vellum soundtable. The long wooden neck is terminates in a flat finial, with a double wooden nut and slightly convex brass frets. There are four single courses of wire playing strings with two front entrant, two side entrant pegs, of light brown wood with lathe turned heads. Attached to the left hand side of the neck is an auxilliary pegboard for the fourteen sympathetic strings, fixed with smaller front entrant pegs, with spear-shaped heads. The top and bottom of the auxilliary pegbox are carved into the shape of peacocks' heads. The playing strings pass over a bone bridge; the sympathetic strings pass through holes in the bridge. The strings are fixed to two endpins on either side of the bridge at the base of the resonator. The peacock body is colourfully decorated throughout, its head blue, the inside of the casing red in colour. The fingerboard and pegbox are painted with flowers. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Subjects: | bamboo wood hide bone dilrubas vegetable fibre paint mayuris metal thread | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-12941 |
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