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Spike fiddle
This is a spike-bowl fiddle made with a gourd-shell resonator covered with skin that secured with brass tacks. It has a neck made of cane with two wooden friction pegs holding brass wire strings. The bridge is missing.
- Date:
1880–91 - Maker:
- Collection:
Powell-Cotton Museum - Inventory number:
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Sumatra, Indonesia - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:321.311 Spike bowl lutes
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- Decorative elements:Plug of feathers inserted at the top of the neck.
- Inscriptions:
- Hornbostel-Sachs category:321.311 Spike bowl lutes
- Repository:Powell-Cotton Museum
- Measurements:Height: 1045mm; Width: 175mm; Depth: 150mm