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The guzla is a robust little bowed string instrument made from a single piece of wood in shape like a small ladle, the neck not unlike that of the violin in design except the scroll is usually carved as the stylized head of a goat. The sounding box is the "scoop of the ladle" and is covered in scraped skin and pinned to the sides. The back of the ladle can often be highly carved. The single string is held at the top on a vertical tuning peg fixed through the top of the finger board. The single string passes down the fingerboard then across the skin top of the sounding box over a simple low bridge and is looped round a stubby triangular shaped tail, also carved from the same body of wood. Used by shepherds and rural musicians in the Balkans it makes rather a buzzing,groaning sound and is used as accompaniment for songs and stories. Bigger versions exist.