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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.
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c.1960 - Maker:
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Horniman Museum and Gardens - Inventory number:
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Chitral (Timezone: Asia/Karachi) - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:321.321 Necked bowl lutes
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- Materials:metal thread, vegetable fibre, wood
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:321.321 Necked bowl lutes
- Repository:Horniman Museum and Gardens
- Measurements:overall: 1073 x 107 x 102 mm