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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.
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Pre 1965 - Maker:
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University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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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
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/16671