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
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
422.2 reedpipes with single reeds (clarinets)
211.311-6 single-skin frame drum, with membrane glued to the drum
321.321-71 necked bowl lutes sounded by bowing with a bow
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