Explore

Showing results

Hide images

Dutar

Dutar, long necked lute. The small hemipyriform resonator is of medium brown wood, carved on the back and covered with a thin table of the same type of wood. The bridge is a stick of light wood. The long, tapering neck and fingerboard with fourteen tied gut frets. There are five wire strings and five wooden tuning pegs: three front entrant, two side entrant.

  • Culture:
  • Period:
  • Materials:metal thread, vegetable fibre, wood
  • Specific materials/techniques:
  • Decorative elements:
  • Inscriptions:
  • Hornbostel-Sachs category:321.321 Necked bowl lutes
  • Repository:Horniman Museum and Gardens
  • Measurements:overall: 1073 x 107 x 102 mm