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Aeolian harp.
Technical description: Pine oblong box, with two loose bridges carrying 20 strings in two rows of ten (one of the rows through holes in the bridge). Tuning-pins at one end (square-headed), hitchpins at the other end (iron nails). Gut strings. Two sound-holes, diameter 36.5 (hitchpin end), 37.5 (tuning-pin end). Lid fits on the top. 31mm gap for the wind to pass through, width 660.
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Late 19th or early 20th century - Maker:
Hays, Alfred - Collection:
University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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London/England - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:314.122-3 True board zithers with resonator box (box zither) sounded by blowing
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:314.122-3 True board zithers with resonator box (box zither) sounded by blowing
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- Measurements:812
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/18162