Hardingfele

back: 2 pieces of plain wood (?birch), fairly highly arched, flat in the middle, with pronounced grooves at waist and prominent squared-off corners. Ribs: plain wood varnished yellow, with a line of gold paint along the inside edge of the plates. Belly: 1 piece pine, highly arched, flattened in the middle, varnished yellow; f-holes (90mm) wider vertically than horizontally because of the depth of the belly and the steep rise in the arching. Endpin of painted wood; nut in bone. Tailpiece: through-tied with wire, hooks underneath for sympathetic strings, which pass under the fingerboard and over serrated combs inserted in the middle of the thick flat-topped bridge; the normal strings also looped around hooks, on top of the tailpiece. Fingerboard: constructed, decorated like the tailpiece. Neck: thick, short, built up into a wedge under the fingerboard. Pegbox: not fluted along back, but flat; 8 stained whitewood pegs with knobs on. Length 630, body 362, width 165/109/208, ribs 33, fingerboard 211