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Tayaw (bowl fiddle)
Technical description: The body consists of a hollowed out gourd, depth 53, maximum width 83.5; wooden neck; 3 gut strings; soundboard of thin wood; strings tied together in a knot after all passing through a single hole at the base of the body.
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Circa 1900 - Maker:
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University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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Burma - 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:373
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/16807