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Bālabān

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This old double-reed instrument with seven almost equal frontal tone holes comes from the possession of a prominent virtuoso from Sulaymaniyah. The so-called Bālabān has a thick-walled, inverted conical body made of reddish-brown, oiled wood with two tinplate hoops at the lower end of the body. Fire decorations can be seen on the mouthpiece shaft.

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Cataloguing data

Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Height: 39,5 cm
Depth: 4 cm
Width: 5,5 cm
Material/Technique
Wood, Textile, Sheet metal (white), Plant material
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VII c 964

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Asia
    Iraq
    Northeast Iraq
  • Collecting
    who
    Christian Schneider (1942-09-08 - 2021-06-20) - Former Possessors
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Donation, 2019
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnomusicology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

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