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Yujian Mingquan Qin
The top surface of the qin is made of platane wood and the bottom surface is made of ovate catalpa wood. The cap corner (guanjue), bridge (yueshan) and dew-receptor (chenglu) are all made of padauk wood, and are not painted. It is hard to determine the material that the goose feet are made of as they are covered in lacquer. The qin has no tuning pegs and the mother-of-pearl inlays (hui) are worn away. It has no cracks (duanwen) on the surfaces and only a thin layer of black lacquer (without an underlayer coating). The raised sound retainers (nayin) are rectangular.
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Qing dynasty - Maker:
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Hunan Museum - Inventory number:
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China - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:314.122 True board zithers with resonator box (box zither)
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- Materials:Platane wood, ovate catalpa wood
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- Inscriptions:The name of the qin, “Yujian Mingquan”, is written in gold-plating and is located under the peg pool.
- Hornbostel-Sachs category:314.122 True board zithers with resonator box (box zither)
- Repository:Hunan Museum
- Measurements:Total length: 119cm, string length: 111.3cm, width of the forehead: 16.5cm, width of the shoulders: 17.5cm, width of the tail: 13.5cm. The large sound hole is 21cm long and 2cm wide. The small sound hole is 10.4cm long and 1.9cm wide.