FASCICULI MALATENSES 
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35. Fiddle . Malay, Jambu, Jhering. 
Similar to the above ; thirty-one inches long. Neck in two parts, upper 
part bearing a carved 4 head. 1 The wooden parts are turned and painted. 
Two ebony tuning-pegs ; two strings of brass wire. Bridge with wide-spread 
foot and narrow columnar rest. Small bag of rosin attached to neck. Bow 
twenty-two inches long, plain, shaped as before. 
36. Fiddle . Malay. Pa tan i River, Hulu R ham an. 
Similar to the above, but of ruder construction. 4 Foot 1 and lower part 
of neck of soft wood, upper part of neck of bamboo, head of wood carved 
to represent the head-dress of a dewa (demi-god) and inset with fragments of 
glass. Three plain wooden tuning-pegs, three strings of twisted fibre ; arched 
bridge. Bow similar to those of the above instruments. 
37. Fiddle. Patani town. 
Similar to No, 36, but better finished. Carved and painted, with burnt 
designs on the bamboo part of the neck. Carved head terminating 111 the 
glass stopper of a bottle. Three carved pegs ; arched bridge. On the 
membrane is fixed a lump of gum or rosin, probably to quench the inhar¬ 
monic tones of the membrane. Bow of cane, slender and flexible, perforated 
at the proximal end and notched at the distal end ; horsehair strings knotted 
through hole and notch. The bow is modelled upon the Chinese pattern 
and may probably have belonged to another instrument of Chinese form (see 
No. 39). (Robinson coll.) 
38. Fiddle. Kampong Jalor, Jalor. 
Similar to No. 33, but smaller and of ruder make. Length, twenty- 
seven and a half inches. Head and neck in one piece of bamboo. Bow 
fifteen and a quarter inches long, of rude construction, proximal end 
expanded and curled over, with finger groove. 
39. Fiddle . Samsam name, rehab. Pulau TeHbun, Trang (PI. XXI, 
Fig. 19). 
Length, twenty-three and three-quarters inches. Body of scraped 
cocoanut shell, bowl-shaped ; aperture, four and a half inches across, covered 
with layers of newspaper. Neck and head in one piece of wood, cut square 
at the head. Two large tuning-pegs. The neck passes through the resonator, 
and forms a small foot below it. Two strings attached to the foot, and passing 
over a bridge of rolled-up paper, through a sliding loop on the neck, to be 
fastened above to the split ends of the tuning-pegs, which project far out. 
Bow as in No. 37, twenty-nine inches long. This is a thoroughly Chinese 
form of fiddle, and resembles the erb-bsien of the lower-class Chinese. The 
form has been adopted in Siam proper, and much improved upon. 
