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Description: | Çocuk baglamasi, child's long-necked lute. The resonator is pear-shaped and round-backed, made from ribs of alternating medium and light brown wood. The sound table is flat, of light brown wood, inlaid with mother-of pearl, and edged with mother-of-pearl lozenges which continue up the fingerboard. The bridge is flat. The fingerboard has fifteen gut frets which encircle the neck, and there are seven frets inlaid on the table. The peg box tipped with ivory, with three front entrant and three side entrant pegs. The pegs are of hammer-headed and ornately finished. The six strings, probably originally arranged as three double courses, are of steel wire and are attached to a stringholder at the base of the body. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Subjects: | lutes knotting wood tortoiseshell mother of pearl | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-12529 |
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