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Tube zither
A ketadu, heterochord tube zither. The tubular body of bamboo, originally built with 12 wire strings tuned from pegs encircling a wooden pegbox at the top of the instrument (one peg missing), and looped around nails in a node at the opposite end. Six of the strings have bridges made of bamboo. The instrument is tied with a resonator, haba, made of a lontar palm (borassus sundaicus) leaf, with thirteen midribs, that is incised, stitched and folded to form a decorative finial.
- Date:
2004 - Maker:
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Horniman Museum and Gardens - Inventory number:
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Nusa Tenggara Timur - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:312.122 Heterochord (true) tube zithers with extra resonator
- Culture:Savu People
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- Materials:palm leaf, wood, wire, bamboo
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:312.122 Heterochord (true) tube zithers with extra resonator
- Repository:Horniman Museum and Gardens
- Measurements:overall: 637 mm x 422 mm x 597 mm