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Spike tube fiddle.
Technical description: Tube, depth 130, internal diameter 70, shaped wooden resonator made from ~olu sambya~ (mark ~humia platycalyx~); skin sound table nailed to tube with eight wooden nails; string if sisal; tuning peg and goat-tail decoration.
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Pre 1966 - Maker:
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University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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Uganda - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:321.313-7 Spike tube lutes played by bowing
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:321.313-7 Spike tube lutes played by bowing
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- Measurements:460 excluding goat tail decoration.
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/14961