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Arched harp or bow harp.
Technical description: Body made from wood, rectangular shape with rounded edges; sound-table of cow-hide laced with V-lacing to small patch of cow-hide on underside; two sound-holes cut in sound table, each c20 diameter; 5 strings of twisted nylon; peg tuning; pentatonically tuned.
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Circa 1966 - Maker:
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University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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Northern Uganda/Uganda - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:322.11-5 Arched harps sounded by the bare fingers
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:322.11-5 Arched harps sounded by the bare fingers
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- Measurements:510
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/17241