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Spike tube fiddle.
Technical description: Tube resonator, diameter 72, depth 100, with slightly concave sides; wooden neck, body and pegs, with simple cut-out pattern across base of body; snakeskin covering as sound-board; 2 silk strings.
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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:321.313-7 Spike tube lutes played by bowing
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:321.313-7 Spike tube lutes played by bowing
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- Measurements:735
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/18359