Pipa (Rosewood)

a Chinese pipa held upright: a pear-shaped body in dark reddish-brown rosewood with a flat pale paulownia soundboard and no soundhole, a small low string-holder bridge near the bottom, exactly four strings, a short neck carrying exactly six tall wedge-shaped wooden frets (xiang), then a long evenly spaced run of thin bamboo frets set into the soundboard below them, reaching about two-thirds of the way down, a pegbox bent slightly back with exactly four lateral tuning pegs, two on each side, topped by a small plain curled head; no dragon or bat carving, no plectrum or nail picks