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musical instrument

Fragment of a musical instrument. This is the tail-piece of a string instrument which anchored one end of the strings. Clearly visible are five holes that held the strings and two additional ones with which the tail-piece was fastened to the corpus of the instrument. The tail-piece was made out of horn.

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