rebaba* | Photographer: Svenja Strauss | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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The body is an enamelled bowl with a flattened, eightfold perforated base and a glued-on fish-skin membrane folded over far to the outside. The string support is an uneven round wooden stick with an iron rod as a spike extension. Two strings made of twisted nylon material. A recessed pegbox at the upper end of the stick with two wooden flank pegs passing through from the right and left. Solid, cylindrical pegheads. The upper neck section has multiple wrapping around the two strings. A plano-convex bridge made of plant marrow. The lower tailpiece is a wire loop extending from the neck joint to the top of the body. A straight, almost plano-convex wooden bow stick. The nylon fibre stringing is looped into a knot behind a perforation at one end of the stick and knotted into the end of a loop of wool cord wrapped around the stick at the other. Neck and vertebrae coloured black. A carved neck tip. from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (Appendix Object Catalogue)
Cataloguing data
Width: 18,2 cm
Height: 10,9 cm