Guitar fiddle

The Guitar fiddle or Troubadour Fiddle is a modern name used retroactively for certain precursors of the violin possessing characteristics of both guitar and fiddle. The name 'guitar fiddle' is intended to emphasize the fact that the instrument in the shape of the guitar, which during the Middle Ages represented the most perfect principle of construction for stringed instruments with necks, adopted at a certain period the use of the bow from instruments of a less perfect type, the rebab and its hybrids.