DescriptionTechnical description: Wooden pear-shaped body, width 122 mm, depth 130 mm; wooden neck, body and soundboard, finely joined; neck is inlaid with 13 circular mother-of-pearl dots and inset with a bone upper bridge and a decorative tip; 5 metal strings: three pegs inserted into the front of the next and two laterally. Originally the neck would have had tied frets.
All strings broken; main bridge missing, no remaining frets.
Specific literature references: probably to be identified with item 482 'Tamboura baghlama, a kind of mandoline (Egypt)' in Engel 1872. |