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Peacock vina'.
Technical description: Wooden neck and resonating chamber; gourd at neck end; 2 melodic strings, 3 drone strings, 14 sympathetic strings (all metal); curved ivory bridge, perforated for sympathetic strings; 22 brass frets; height 490 (to top of peacock's head); width of resonating chamber 166.
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Probably 20th century - Maker:
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University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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India - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:321.321-7 Necked bowl lutes sounded by bowing
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:321.321-7 Necked bowl lutes sounded by bowing
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- Measurements:1180
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/17372