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Spike tube fiddle / side-blown flute.
Technical description: 2 strings; one string of gut; tube resonator with snake skin sound-table glued on; string attachment made from a simple wire hook hooked on to base of tube (neck does not pierce lower end of body); neck of bamboo with seven holes of varying size set along underside; cork bung set inside tube just above lower tuning peg; this instrument can be used as a flute by using the lower peg hole as a mouth hole and covering its lower opening.
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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:321.313-7 Spike tube lutes played by bowing
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:321.313-7 Spike tube lutes played by bowing
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- Measurements:545
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/16481