Dulcimer. The wooden box painted black, with plywood bass board and brass carrying handle. 22 quadruple courses of strings (11 treble, 11 bass). Chessmen bridges.
314.122 True board zithers with resonator box (box zither) (-4)
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421.121.12 Open side-blown flutes with fingerholes
object | 2004.876
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311.121.222 Mono-heterochord musical bows with resonator attached, with tuning noose
object | 2002.562.1
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211.211.1 Individual single-skin cylindrical drums
object | M24.8.56/191
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412.132-62 Sets of free reeds with flexible air reservoir
object | M306a-1996
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