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Arched harp or bow harp.

Technical description: Body made from tortoise-shell carapace; sound-table of cowhide laced with V-lacing to small patch of cowhide on underside; two sound-holes in sound-table; 5 strings of twisted nylon; peg tuning; pentatonically tuned.

  • Date:
    Pre 1965
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    University of Edinburgh
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  • Place of production:
    Northern Uganda/Uganda
  • Hornbostel-Sachs classification:322.11-8
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  • Hornbostel-Sachs category:322.11-8
  • Repository:University of Edinburgh
  • Measurements:570