The Suka was a unique

fiddle A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including classical music. Although in many cases violins and fiddles are essentially synonymous, th ...

that was played vertically, on the knee or hanging from a strap, and the strings were stopped at the side with the fingernails; similar to the

Gadulka The gadulka ( bg, гъдулка) is a traditional Bulgarian bowed string instrument. Alternate spellings are "gǎdulka", "gudulka" and "g'dulka". Its name comes from a root meaning "to make noise, hum or buzz". The gadulka is an integral part o ...

. The body of the instrument was very similar to the modern

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

, but the neck was very wide, and the pegbox was crude. This was thought to be the "missing link" between the upside-down or "knee

chordophone String instruments, stringed instruments, or chordophones are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner. Musicians play some string instruments by plucking the st ...

" instruments, and the modern violin. It died out, and was known only from drawings of a single specimen displayed at an exhibition in 1888.

External links

*http://www.fiddlingaround.co.uk/easterneurope/Easterneurope%20frame.html {{Authority control Polish musical instruments Lost and extinct musical instruments