Type of object: Musical
instrument
Accession
number: 2001.252 Inventory
number: UH 01
Object: Bowed
lute (sarinda)
Material/technique: Wood,
hide, nacre, gut, metal / hand-crafted
Origin/Period: Afghanistan
/ 20th
C.
Brief
description: Resonance
chamber covered in goatskin, three gut strings, rest of metal of
varying thickness. Three large tuning pegs, fifteen small pegs. Body,
sides, and spine decorated in inlaid nacre. Open-work peg head.
Measurements: L.
61 cm W. 18 cm H. 13.5 cm Weight 1.700 g
Condition: Strings
loose and broken
Reference: Dupree,
L. (1973): Afghanistan
Provenance:
Bought in Kabul, ca. 1965.
Donated by: U.
and W. Hilty, Meilen, Switzerland, 2001
Photograph:
Copyright
© - Photo/Text: Stiftung Foundation Bibliotheca Afghanica -
Afghanistan Museum, Carla Grissmann, 2005
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