Sitar

The sitar is a fretted long-necked lute made with gourd resonators ("tumba"). This example is a eight string lute with a single egg-shaped gourd tumba, and a one-piece neck and pegbox made of wood (usually tun or teak wood), covered with a wooden top and fretboard respectively. At the present state, the instrument has fourteen T-shaped wooden frets tied with gut string (five frets missing, but gut still present). All pegs are missing or broken, but two would be located along the side of the neck in lower positions. There are no strings (usually of metal wire), and the jawari bridge is also missing. There are two camel bone nuts, two brass posts on the fretboard for the lower side strings, and a wooden tailpiece with a small bone spike.