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Spike fiddle
Circassian spike fiddle. Wood, the table pierced with small soundholes. Originally with two horsehair strings. Purchased in the Paris Exhibition of 1867.
- Date:
circa 1865 - Maker:
- Collection:
Horniman Museum and Gardens - Inventory number:
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Russian Federation - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:321.311-71 spike bowl lutes sounded by bowing with a bow
- Culture:Cherkess
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- Materials:hair, vegetable fibre, animal fibre, wood
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:321.311-71 spike bowl lutes sounded by bowing with a bow
- Repository:Horniman Museum and Gardens
- Measurements:overall: 658 x 168 x 70 mm