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Spike fiddle.
Technical description: Coconut shell, circumference 380, depth 90, covered with soundboard of 'tung' wood; wooden neck and pegs (circular, flat); 2 silk strings, both stretched across one (notched, moveable) bridge.
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Probably before 1872 - Maker:
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University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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China - 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:710
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/16224