Body
The barbat's body contains three major parts:
- Resonating body: It is like a pear and it is the biggest resonating body in comparison with other bodies. There are three sound holes and lattices on its body, one bigger than two others.
- Finger Board: It doesn’t have frets and it’s very small.
- Bent-back peg box: There is a great angle between the fingerboard and the bent-back peg box and this is very important. For it has several tuning pegs if the bent-back peg box is weak, the instrument won’t be tuned very well.
The materials of barbat
- Resonating body: Walnut or maple.
- String fastener: Boxwood.
- Top sheet: Deal
- Neck: Walnut
- Nut: Bone or plastic
- Bent-back peg box: Walnut
- Pegs: Walnut or ebony
- Lattices of hole: Walnut
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