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Description: | From / Ragusa / Dalmatia / [presented] / EJH / 96.
Gusle, fiddle, and bow. Inscribed in pencil on the back: 'From / Ragusa / Dalmatia / [presented] / EJH / 96'. The back and neck are carved from a single piece of wood. The back has a rectangular slot cut into it. The long neck terminates in a finial carved in the form of a horse's head. The single peg, consisting of a roughly shaped forked twig, passes from the back to the front of the neck. The string consists of a number of strands of horsehair, which are attached by cords to a knob projecting from the end of the instrument. The finial and front of the neck are decorated with incised designs coloured with ink. The body is covered with parchment which is tied with thongs at the neck and knob, and nailed with pegs around the instrument. A number of holes are punched into the membrane. Bridge missing. The bow is sickle-shaped, made from a forked twig. The hairs are tied through holes in the stick and are still tacky with the remains of rosin. Collected in Dubrovnik. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Subjects: | spike fiddles gusles | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-13063 |
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