Pluriarc

This instrument was collected in the field by Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton. A pluriarc ("many bows") is a compound, or multiple bowl lute, consisting of a single resonator (bowl or box shaped) from which several bows (or necks) project, each carrying a string. The tuning of each string depends on the variable curvature of each neck. This particular example has a resonator made of an hollowed …