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Bowl fiddle.
Technical description: Upper neck and pear-shaped body of hollowed-out wood, maximum width 113, depth 53; the surface of the resonating chamber covered with a flat piece of wood (depth 6.5 - 4.0) glued into place; 2 kidney-shaped sound holes in soundboard; tailpiece screwed to body; concave ridge cut out of base of body; roughly shaped pegs inserted in triangular pattern through back of top of neck, the string from the central peg (at apex of triangle) passing over a bridge roughly in line with the other two pegs; 3 metal strings.
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Circa 1965 - Maker:
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University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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Rhodes/Greece - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:321.321-7 Necked bowl lutes sounded by bowing
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:321.321-7 Necked bowl lutes sounded by bowing
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- Measurements:385
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/14918