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Bowl lute.
Technical description: Light, unpolished outer case and soundboard of 'tung' wood; maximum body width 255, body depth 45; neck and hexagonal pegs of darker wood; 4 convex frets on fingerboard, made of dark wood and glued on, with thin ivory tabs glued above and below; 10 frets on soundboard; 4 silk strings.
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Before 1888, probably before 1872, possibly before 1858 - Maker:
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University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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China - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:321.321-5 Necked bowl lutes sounded by the bare fingers
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:321.321-5 Necked bowl lutes sounded by the bare fingers
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- Measurements:1000
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/17919