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Double note anvil effect. Nominal pitch: B?.

Technical description: Two iron bars, widths 50, 51, thickness 13.0, lengths 131, 185, mounted on raised blocks in shallow wooden boxes mounted on a board. Typical of home-made instrument. Box has corks in it to support the bars at nodal points.

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  • Hornbostel-Sachs category:111.222 Sets of percussion plaques
  • Repository:University of Edinburgh
  • Measurements:175 × 215 × 40.