321.321 Necked bowl lutes

Dutar, long necked lute. The small hemipyriform resonator is of medium brown wood, carved on the back and covered with a thin soundtable of the same type of wood. The bridge is a stick of light wood. The long, tapering neck and fingerboard with fourteen tied gut frets. There are five wire strings and five wooden tuning pegs: three front entrant, two side entrant.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
M15.10.60/1
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 1073 x 107 x 102 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
wood; vegetable fibre; metal thread
CATEGORY
Musical Instruments
LOCATION
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