Tamb?r? (vina)

long-necked 4-stringed lute; half-spherical body made from one block of an Indian wood resembling mahogany, carved to represent wide bands with intervening narrow grooved straps decorated with scallop-shaped panels made of tongues of ivory at the bottom, and at the top alternate tongues of ivory and tortoise-shell. Table: wood pierced with a circle of holes on either side of the strings on the lateral diameter; bridge, moveable, of wood and ivory, with 4 slots, like the nut; the 4 strings are attached to an open horse-shoe-shaped plate of gilded metal with 7 small holes, inset with green corded velvet; the plate is attached to the body with 3 screws. Neck: ?mahogany. Fingerboard: ?stained satinwood; 40mm from the upper nut the neck is pierced with a hole, square at the front, round at the back, for the attachment of a gourd resonator. Head: as dragon head; back of pegbox open, with 4 tapered pegs of turned ebony with large turned ivory knobs. Length 1100, body 405, width 395, depth 241