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Aeolian Harp.
Technical description: Two similar wooden boxes with sloping soundboards, assembled with one rotated 180º lengthwise so that a wedge-shaped opening is created for the wind; each with 2 loose bridges, carrying 20 strings in two tows of ten. One row of strings goes through holes in bridge. Tuning-pins at one end (square-headed), hitchpins at the other end (iron nails). Gut strings. Two sound-holes, diameter 41.5, in each soundboard.54mm gap for the wind to pass through, width 652.
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Late 19th or early 20th century - Maker:
T. C. Bates & Son [Family] - Collection:
University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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London/England - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:314.122-3 True board zithers with resonator box (box zither) sounded by blowing
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:314.122-3 True board zithers with resonator box (box zither) sounded by blowing
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- Measurements:826
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/16939