A fiddle with a round handle that pierces the body and projects at the lower end, forming a cello-like spike. The earliest fiddles seem to have been spike fiddles. Al Farabi mentions spikes in the 10th C. Traditionally of Kurdistan origin, spike fiddles are found in Egypt and Asia today. 4 metal strings with a gourd body and skin head. Wonderful wild sound, held up and down with the bottom point resting on the player's leg
