Showing results
Hide images
Okeme.
Technical description: Wooden box, maximum dimensions 402 × 480 × 77; 13 iron lamellae; one finger-hole on underside; 'belly-hole' on nearside, closed by pressing instrument against player's belly. Large size and pitch of lamellae suggest it is the bass instrument from an ensemble of three different sizes. Repair History: Split in sound-table repaired with a strip of aluminium sheet, nailed in place.
- Date:
Circa 1955 - Maker:
Omara, I.K. - Collection:
University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
Loading... - Place of production:
Lango/Uganda - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:122.12 Lamellaphones (or plucked idiophones) with laced-on, or hooked-in lamellae, with resonator
- Culture:
- Period:
- Materials:
- Specific materials/techniques:
- Decorative elements:
- Inscriptions:
- Hornbostel-Sachs category:122.12 Lamellaphones (or plucked idiophones) with laced-on, or hooked-in lamellae, with resonator
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- Measurements:480
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/17632