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gusle

Fiddle ('gusla'), carved wood, with single horsehair string attached at top of fingerboard which terminates in a scroll carved with a horse's head, the sound board of stretched skin, and angled bridge. The back of fingerboard and bowl with incised geometric decoration.

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