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This instrument was collected by Christopher Powell-Cotton.It is a small one-string, spike fiddle in which the resonator is made of a wooden tube, covered on one end by an animal skin soundtable, pinned with wooden pegs. The neck is made of a wooden dowel and has a wooden peg, where a string made of twisted vegetable fibers is looped. The bridge is missing. The instrument has a small bow with vegetable fibers.
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1955–64 - Maker:
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Powell-Cotton Museum - Inventory number:
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Uganda - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:321.313-7 Spike tube lutes played by bowing
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- Decorative elements:A large patch of dark animal hair is attached to the top of the neck.
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:321.313-7 Spike tube lutes played by bowing
- Repository:Powell-Cotton Museum
- Measurements:Height: 490mm; Depth (at body): 200mm; Diameter: 115mm; Bow length: 235mm; Bow width: 70mm