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A pegbox is the part of certain stringed musical instruments (the violin family: violin, viola, cello, double bass) that houses the tuning pegs. The corresponding part of the lute family (including guitar , mandolin , banjo , ukulele ) is called the headstock .
Theorbo. The theorbo is a plucked string instrument of the lute family, with an extended neck that houses the second pegbox. Like a lute, a theorbo has a curved-back sound box with a flat top, typically with one or three sound holes decorated with rosettes. As with the lute, the player plucks or strums the strings with the right hand while ...
Scroll (music) The scroll of a double bass. A scroll is the decoratively carved beginning of the neck of certain stringed instruments, mainly members of the violin family. The scroll is typically carved in the shape of a volute (a rolled-up spiral) according to a canonical pattern, although some violins are adorned with carved heads, human and ...
Violin by Albin Paul Knorr, Markneukirchen, showing flame figure on back and ribs. The body of the violin is made of two arched plates fastened to a "garland" of ribs with animal hide glue. The ribs are what is commonly seen as the "sides" of the box. The rib garland includes a top block, four corner blocks (sometimes omitted in inexpensively ...
Barbat. (lute) Modern barbat with six courses of strings. The barbat ( Persian: بربت) or barbud is a lute of Greater Iranian or Persian origin, and widespread across Central Asia, especially since the Sassanid Empire. [1] Barbat is characterized as carved from a single piece of wood, including the neck and a wooden sound board. [1]
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Mandora or Gallichon. Mandora (1726) 6~9 courses lute ( Calchedon, Calichon) (1735) [1] [2] Gallichon. The mandora or gallichon is a type of 18th- and early 19th-century lute, with six to nine courses of strings. The terms were interchangeable, with mandora more commonly used from the mid-18th century onwards.
Double-decker made by Hans Severin Nyborg Pegbox with lion head of Double-decker made by Hans Severin Nyborg. Double-decker or Dubbelplansfiol is a recent and colloquial name of the dominant variant of preserved Swedish violins with sympathetic strings, what they were called when they originated in the 18th century is not known.