gabus

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gabus

Like No. 290, but the body membrane is pegged with wooden pins trimmed back to wall level. A nailed nut with six string guide notches. Five wooden flank pegs inserted irregularly from both sides into the burnt pegbox perforations. Flattened pegheads. Five nylon strings, four of them in a double-course arrangement. A wooden bridge with six string guide notches. The lower tailpiece is a carved, cube-shaped extension with three perforations through which the three string courses pass. On the underside, all the strings are tied to a common crosspiece. "Built on the island of Anjouan in Domoni." from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (appendix object catalogue)

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Cataloguing data

Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Length: 80,5 cm
Width: 13,8 cm
Height: 9,8 cm
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VII f 132

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Comoros
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnomusicology

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