Gusle

Description

Small one-string fiddle made from a single piece of carved wood, consisting of a pear-shaped body, covered with an animal skin soundtable, and a neck terminating in a horse-shaped head finial. The soundtable is pinned to the body and has several small pierced holes. The instrument has one rear friction peg, onto which is looped a string of horsehair that descends and goes through a hole of the triangular bridge, and is tied onto a small wooden spike