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Bowl lute.
Technical description: Outer case of dark, polished wood; soundboard of light, unpolished 'tung' wood; maximum body width 262.5, body depth 57.5; wooden neck with hexagonal wooden pegs; 4 convex frets on the fingerboard, with plain ivory tabs above and below; 10 frets on soundboard; 4 silk strings. This is a bent-necked, northern pipa, thin and slender but heavier than (442).
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Probably 19th century - 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:1035
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/14948