Fiddle; cikara

Cikara, fiddle, with four playing strings and nine wire sympathetic strings. The body of waisted outline carved from a single piece of wood. The table is of skin painted black with gilt and green edging. The M-shaped bridge is of black painted wood with two feet. The pegbox is square and surmounted by a carving of a peacock, the neck and head painted black with red marking on the crest and the beak painted gold. The four bowed strings are tuned from side-entrant pegs of medium brown wood with ivory veneer on the heads and ebony inlays. The pegbox is open at the back and half closed at the front with a gilded arch. The neck is hollowed out at the back. Each of the nine sympathetic strings has a side entrant peg of ebony or blackwood with the strings emergeing from the front of the fingerboard through an ivory or bone eyelet. All the strings are secured to an integral rectangular stringholder at the base of the body.