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Description: | Alabu sarangi, fiddle. Gourd back with ivory stringing round the edge of the flat wooden soundtable with two f-holes. 4 bowed strings, two of gut and two copper overwound, pegged from violin-style pegs. 8 sympathetic strings pegged along the fingerboard. They run from holes in the fingerboard, through holes in the bridge to holes in top of the violin-style tailpiece that is attached to the peg projecting from the distal end of the body. Violin-style peg-box for four strings, surmounted by a scroll. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Subjects: | fiddles | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-6001 |
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