Marble figurines 'fiddle-shaped' from Naxos and Paros (III, Fig. 6).    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Observe in Archaeology] Reference

The chairs had a narrow, fairly high back, with a central splat spoon-shaped and later fiddle-shaped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today] Reference

They were more open backed than in Charles's time and had two uprights and a spoon-or fiddle-shaped splat to support the sitter's back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today] Reference

Identifying brown recluses is difficult for some, as the fiddle-shaped marking on the back is not always present on young spiderlings or light-toned individuals.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

In the ampullæ the wall is thickened, and projects into the cavity as a fiddle-shaped, transversely placed elevation, the septum transversum, in which the nerves end.    From Wordnik.com.  [X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1d. 4. The Internal Ear or Labyrinth] Reference

Not its face -- that was old-timey enough with its sun, moon and stars in blue and gold, and the name of the Liverpool maker engraved on its enamel; nor its hands, fiddle-shaped and stiff, nor its case, which always reminded me of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero] Reference

But then she would face outward and crane her neck over the fathomless void of that bottomless pit, and for a space of moments would gaze steadily downward, with a despondent droop of her fiddle-shaped head and a suicidal gleam in her mournful eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roughing it De Luxe] Reference

It extends from the heads of the outer rods of Corti to the external row of the outer hair cells, and is formed by several rows of “minute fiddle-shaped cuticular structures, ” called phalanges, between which are circular apertures containing the free ends of the hair cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1d. 4. The Internal Ear or Labyrinth] Reference

When people talk of a horse as an ugly animal I think of its beautiful moments, but when I hear a flow of indiscriminate praise of its beauty I think of such an aspect as one gets for example from a dog-cart, the fiddle-shaped back, and that distressing blade of the neck, the narrow clumsy place between the ears, and the ugly glimpse of cheek.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Modern Utopia] Reference

The great Colonel Congou, with his long, whitehaired goat-skins, a fiddle-shaped leather shield, tufted with white hair at all six extremities, bands of long hair tied below the knees, and the helmet covered with rich beads of several colours, surmounted with a plume of crimson feathers, from the centre of which rose a stem, tufted with goat-hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley] Reference