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Language: Ainu
Language: Ainu

Jew's harp

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Cut from one piece of bamboo cane as a frame with a springy tongue, which is made to vibrate by means of a string. With this simple instrument the mouth cavity serves as a resonance chamber for modelling the tones. The narrow model is cut from cut from a light-coloured bamboo.

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Ainu
Object type
idiophones
Dimensions
10 x 155 x 20 mm
Material/Technique
Bamboo; fibre, vegetable;
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 25300
Other number(s)
RJM 1910/05 (Convolute number)

Provenance and sources

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