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musical instrument

Musical instrument; made of gourd; half of gourd with wooden pole inserted through holes carved in top and bottom; open end covered with skin held in place by wooden pegs; fibre strings attached to metal ring screwed into bottom of pole and stretched over skin to top of pole.

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