Instrument

Museum number:
9-17907
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4219
Description:
Reed organ, bamboo; w/ fourteen reeds; reeds have small holes burnt into them & slots cut out of them; reeds held together by split bamboo (?), mastic, & piece of carved dark wood; wood hollowed out so reeds pass through at 90 deg. angle; wood is ovaline in shape, one end flat, other end has knobbed, circular protrusion; small blocks of wood between reeds to hold ends of binding material. L. 72.2 cm.
Donor:
Beth Harnex MacLafferty Blake
Collection place:
Laos
Verbatim coll. place:
Laos;; Khene
Collection date:
1954-1959
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Reed organs
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
March 11, 1987
Context of use:
(descrip)...knobbed circular protrusion;small blocks of wood btwn. reeds to hold ends of binding material. L. 72.2 cm.
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Loans:
S1994-1995 #9b: SFO Museum (May 5, 1995–June 12, 1995)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Instrument, accession number 9-17907, described as Reed organ, bamboo; w/ fourteen reeds; reeds have small holes burnt into them & slots cut out of them; reeds held together by split bamboo (?), mastic, & piece of carved dark wood; wood hollowed out so reeds pass through at 90 deg. angle; wood is ovaline in shape, one end flat, other end has knobbed, circular protrusion; small blocks of wood between reeds to hold ends of binding material. L. 72.2 cm.

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