A Berber plucked string instrument (Loutar) of the oud (lute) family, originally known in Morocco. The body of the instrument is a pear-shaped wooden bowl over the top of which a piece of animal skin parchment has been stretched; this parchment is sewn around the area where the body and the neck connect and attached to the rest of the body through an unknown adhesive. The neck is a long, cylindrical piece of wood; at the top of the neck there is a small, ornamental carving under which are three holes with carved, cylindrical tuning pegs sticking out of them in three different directions; the bottom of the neck is carved flat with two notches made at the very bottom, creating three small posts where the strings can be attached, while most of the bottom portion of the neck is covered by the parchment covering the body a small hole has been made allowing the bottom of the neck to be accessible. There are 2 complete strings made from a white thread and the remnants of a third, broken string at the bottom of the neck.