Margaret Birley
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Duct flute; sample

111.243 slit drums

Beater (element of musical instrument)

Plectrum

111.242.2 sets of bells

112.122 sliding rattles

Reco-reco; rod; tuning-key

Tuning-key

112.23 scraped vessels

Tuning-key

423.121.11 end-blown straight labrosones without mouthpiece




Horniman museum negatives registers: musical instruments

321.321-5 necked bowl lutes sounded with the bare fingers

Object images: snake charmer with puppet, 2001

422.22 sets of reedpipes with single reeds

111.11 concussion sticks or stick clappers

331-6 variable tension chordophones or 'plucked drums' with loose string attached to the drum-head



111.243 slit drums

321.321-6 necked bowl lutes



211.11 separate vessel drums

423.121.2 end-blown labrosones with curved or folded tubes

211.212.11-92 individual double-skin cylindrical drums, one skin used for playing, with membrane lapped onto a hoop


112.13 vessel rattles


321.321-6 necked bowl lutes sounded by plectrum
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