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kemenche

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  • Other Name

    rebec

    Black Sea Fiddle

  • Description

    kemenche (Turkish bowed instrument), wooden, short necked straight sided fiddle, three metal strings, three hardwood pegs, bow, wooden with nylon strings, (query catalogue description as body is straight not 'pear shaped' as described), belly made of some sort of pine, back, neck and pegbox carved from one piece of hardwood

  • Place
    Turkey
  • Accession Number
    1998.60.171
  • Accession Date
    10 Oct 1998
  • Other Id

    265 (Castle)

  • Department

    Applied Arts and Design

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