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Fiddle
Small fiddle, the hollowed out resonator and the neck carved from one piece of wood. The skin soundtable is nailed to the sides with small wooden pegs. The single horsehair string is tied around the top of the neck, and bound tight with a piece of cotton. Wooden bridge. With bow (M24.5.58/1a).
- Date:
1925-1958 - Maker:
- Collection:
Horniman Museum and Gardens - Inventory number:
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Chota Nagpur - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:321.321-71 necked bowl lutes sounded by bowing with a bow
- Culture:Ho
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- Materials:vegetable fibre, hair, hide, wood
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- Inscriptions:
- Hornbostel-Sachs category:321.321-71 necked bowl lutes sounded by bowing with a bow
- Repository:Horniman Museum and Gardens
- Measurements:overall: 400 x 60 x 50 mm