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Spike fiddle.
Technical description: Neck passes right through hemisphere of gourd; table of skin (from young goat?) glued and nailed with iron tacks; Single horsehair string attached with European-type string at lower end.
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Circa 1970 - Maker:
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University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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Western Sudan/Sudan - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:321.311-7 Spike bowl lutes sounded by bowing
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:321.311-7 Spike bowl lutes sounded by bowing
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- Measurements:522
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/16311