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One-string fiddle

This is an unusual one-string fiddle made with a violin-shaped body and a long neck. The body has the same waisted figure and f-shaped soundholes of a violin, but the top and back are flat. The neck terminates in a scroll pegbox, which contains a single friction ebony peg, and although it is unfretted, it has fourteen carved markings for the different pitches. The tuning peg has remains of a wound plain steel string.

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  • Inscriptions:Hand-inscribed note letters and symbols on the side of the neck, along the fret marks: - A at the first mark; - D at the fourteenth mark
  • Hornbostel-Sachs category:321.322 Necked box lutes or necked guitars
  • Repository:Stroud District (Cowle) Museum
  • Measurements:Height: 895mm; Width: 162mm; Depth: 65mm