DescriptionPear-shaped fiddle carved from one piece of wood with separate sound-table, rounded triangular head, and decorative carvings.
Technical description: Upper neck and pear-shaped body of hollowed-out wood, maximum width 113, depth 53; the surface of the resonating chamber covered with a flat piece of wood (depth 6.5 - 4.0) glued into place; 2 kidney-shaped sound holes in soundboard; tailpiece screwed to body; concave ridge cut out of base of body; roughly shaped pegs inserted in triangular pattern through back of top of neck, the string from the central peg (at apex of triangle) passing over a bridge roughly in line with the other two pegs; 3 metal strings. Devorative carvings on head (a sailaboat with stars above) and under the strings (a clock face). |