Cikara

The cikara is a short-necked folk fiddle from India in the usual rebab shape, with a waisted body carved from a single piece of wood that tapers towards the pegbox. The resonator is covered with a lizard skin glued onto the edges. The square pegbox has three lateral friction pegs to which dark horsehair strings are attached. These strings loop at the spike end of the body. The bridge is missing. Along the side of the neck, there are seven smaller pegs for sympathetic strings, usually wire, which run through small holes with bone eyelets on the unfretted fingerboard.