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Fiddle
Small bottle-shaped fiddle. The neck and the dug-out resonator are made from the same piece of wood. The mammal-skin table is nailed to the body with wooden pegs. The single horsehair string is bound to the neck with string, and is broken. Leather carrying strap.
- Date:
before 1975 - Maker:
- Collection:
Horniman Museum and Gardens - Inventory number:
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India - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:321.321-71
- Culture:Tribal India
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:321.321-71
- Repository:Horniman Museum and Gardens
- Measurements:overall: 594 mm