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Cümbüs (old) (Turkish) –  a find on Ebay. Same as above except a finer grade of wood finish formica fingerboard and nice skin head with faded ink stamp (probably from the builder as I don’t think the USDA was stamping goats in Istanbul). Needs new tuners.  Plan to restring with nylon.

Tuning TBD.