Fiddle

Four-stringed fiddle of violin outline. Front almost flat, of dark-stained beech. Two soundholes of letter form with a heart-shaped hole in between. The heart-shaped bridge does not rest on the front; it has a square stem which passes through a hole in the front to rest on the back, where it is located on the point of a nail. Tailpiece (now missing) was attached to vertical post fixed over rib joint at tail. Ribs fixed to rebates on front and back by nails. Back is one-piece of coarse slab-cut coniferous wood. Neck and pegbox of beech. Nut and fingerboard missing; pegbox is hollowed out behind and carved as the clenched fist of a left hand. The strings come to the front of the pegbox through holes in the nails of the four fingers.