Lira

Description

Rebecchino, a three-stringed rebec-type instrument. Body, neck and pegbox carved from one piece of ?poplar. Flat front of poplar or willow with two rudimentary f-shaped soundholes. The neck is hollowed and covered with a poplar fingerboard whose underside is also hollowed. Simple, unpierced, bridge, the flat top grooved for a missing insert. The tailpiece is hitched to an integral endpin with twine. The soundpost under the centre of the bridge was inserted through a hole in the back. Simple flat-faced hook finial to pegbox; three carved, not turned, pegs of oak; nut of oak in a sawcut. Simple painted decoration of lines and dots, in blue, black and red, on front and fingerboard. Three plain gut strings.