Musical instrument

Museum number:
9-17916
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4219
Description:
Musical instrument, stringed; body bamboo, shows traces of red paint; wire string runs length tightened by wooden peg corssing body at 90deg;peg carved to pt in 4-sided triangle, corners cut in zigzags;wire's other end attaches to wood wedgd into open end of bamboo;
Donor:
Beth Harnex MacLafferty Blake
Collection place:
Guangdong province, Southern China
Verbatim coll. place:
China;; Canton
Collection date:
1954-1959
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Chordophones (stringed instruments)
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
March 11, 1987
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Musical instrument, accession number 9-17916, described as Musical instrument, stringed; body bamboo, shows traces of red paint; wire string runs length tightened by wooden peg corssing body at 90deg;peg carved to pt in 4-sided triangle, corners cut in zigzags;wire's other end attaches to wood wedgd into open end of bamboo;
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Musical instrument, accession number 9-17916, described as Musical instrument, stringed; body bamboo, shows traces of red paint; wire string runs length tightened by wooden peg corssing body at 90deg;peg carved to pt in 4-sided triangle, corners cut in zigzags;wire's other end attaches to wood wedgd into open end of bamboo;

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