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a kind of bafs accompaniment. The 

 bridge is not placed at right angles to 

 the fides, but in an oblique direction, 

 one end of it entering one of the found 

 holes, and refting on the back, and the 

 other being placed on the belly juft 

 above the oppofite hole. It is tuned by 

 pegs, with a key or wreft, in a manner 

 fimilar to fome of the guittars. When 

 played upon, it is hung round the neck 

 of the mufician by a firing, as both the 

 thumb and fingers of the hand which 

 it refls upon, are in motion. 



The notes of each of the ftrings, and 

 the method of tuning of them are as 

 follow : 



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