Ngenge

Ngenge *spike fiddle of the Fula of Sierra Leone, the body being made of a truncated gourd, with lizardskin belly, movable cylindrical bridge, and single string of hair. Played with a hair bow. The string is held by a tuning ring and the round handle is surmounted by a rectangle of sheet metal pierced with jingles all the way around the edges. See also: karaning (Collection of the Commonwealth Institute, London).