Music

Item Set

Items

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  Carved wooden flute with six holes simply decorated with brass and silver coloured metal bands

  Carved wooden flute, similar in shape to a recorder, with six holes. It is simply decorated with two carved ridges near the mouthpiece and two flat silver coloured metal bands, a third of the way down, followed by a thicker brass coloured metal band, and a second brass coloured band near the bottom of the instrument.
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  Wooden sansa with 12 metal keys, incised geometric decoration and string on back

  Sansa or thumb piano in the form of a rectangular wooden board with raised edges. It has 12 metal keys or tines, set on a raised wooden box and attached to the board with metal wire. The board is decorated with incised patterns. On the front below the tines is an etched block of eight squares with crosses in their centres, and a line of six circles on the bottom edge. On the back there are rows of circles at the top and bottom, and a square cross, with a circle at the end of each arm, in the centre. There is a short plant fibre string on the back threaded through two holes. At the bottom there is a thick metal wire similar to a large staple with three cylindrical metal beads threaded on it.