Fiddle

Museum number:
5-16859
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050016859
Alternate number:
62 (previous number (donor's original number))
Accession number:
Acc.4729
Description:
1 stringed "fiddle"; hide covered sound box stretched over a diamond shaped wood frame, attached to a carved, wooden neck with 1 peg to support a single horsehair string of multiple strands. string sits 6cm above the neck and runs through a 'V' shaped wooden bridge; the end of the string is attached to twine which loops around a base peg.
Donor:
Dorothy Shack
Collection place:
Eastern Africa
Verbatim coll. place:
East Africa, Ethiopia, Amharic attrib.
Collector:
Dorothy Shack and William A. Shack
Materials:
Hide (collagenous material) and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Fiddles
Function:
5.4 Secular and Religious Musical Instruments
Accession date:
May 22, 2002
Context of use:
music
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
width 23.7 centimeters, length 78 centimeters, and height 23.8 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Fiddle, accession number 5-16859, described as 1 stringed "fiddle"; hide covered sound box stretched over a diamond shaped wood frame, attached to a carved, wooden neck with 1 peg to support a single horsehair string of multiple strands. string sits 6cm above the neck and runs through a 'V' shaped wooden bridge; the end of the string is attached to twine which loops around a base peg.

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