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Music Instrument Collection

The Unisa Music Instrument Collection came into being when Unisa acquired the Harold and Eda Steafel Collection of music instruments. Donations are added to the collection. The collection is used to support and enhance the activities of the Department of Musicology, & the Department of Music through the use of the Collection in research, teaching, exhibitions and publications. More at http://digilibrary.unisa.ac.za/digital/collection/p21049coll6

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Name: ZITHER, Classification: Chordophones, Entry name: Zither, Other name: droned zither, Vernacular: Langeleik; langleik, Culture group: Norwegian, Culture group place: Norway, Description: Long wooden rectangular box body 8 wire strings, 17 wooden frets, 3 adjustable wooden strings. Plectrum: Rectangular piece of horn, rounded at both ends

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Name: Autoharp, Classification: Chordophones - fits in the chorded zither family, Culture group: Western Europe; USA, Description: Trapeze-shaped wooden body with twenty steel strings and six bars across the middle of the instrument giving six different chords. Sound hole under the bars. Painted reddish brown with roses. Manufacture approximately 1900.

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Name: Triple-headed drum, Classification: Membranophones, Culture group: Africa, Culture group place: Africa, Description: Cylindrical wooden black carved body with double heads and one on side. Carved mask on opposite side. Skin carrying handle

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Name: FIDDLE & BOW, Classification: Chordophones, Entry name: Fiddle, Vernacular: Gusla, Culture group: Yugoslavia, Culture group place: Yugoslavia, Description: Lute shaped wooden body; integral neck; membrane table; inverted V shaped bridge; horse head carved at top of neck; incised decoration. Bow: Wooden arched body; oblong handle with peg at one end; horse hair string; incised fish-scale decoration

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Name: BALALAIKA, Classification: Chordophones, Entry name: Balalaika, Vernacular: Balalaika, Culture group: Russian, Culture group place: Russia, Description: Triangular body with an extended neck, with nineteen frets and a spatula-shaped head with three tuning pegs. Approx. early 20th century manufacture

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Name: Whispering drum, Classification: Membranophones, Culture group: Barotse, Culture group place: Zambia, Description: Cylindrical, wooden body, skin head at one end and open on other. Carrying lug on one side with a stick through the head

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Name: FLAGEOLET, Classification: Aerophones, Entry name: Flageolet, Culture group: Western/Europe, Culture group place: Europe; Western, Description: Wooden body with double pipes, three ivory rings, ivory mouthpiece and eight silver keys.

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Ektara Single-stringed Musical Instrument

Name: Talking drum, Classification: Membranophones, Culture group: Yoruba, Culture group place: Nigeria (Africa), Description: Wooden, hour-glass body, double-headed connected by leather tension cords. Drumstick: wooden handle, curved at one end to form flattened beating head.

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4 String Mandolin Zither

Name: BOWED ZITHER, Classification: Chordophones, Entry name: Zither, Culture group: Western; Europe; USA, Culture group place: Europe; USA, Description: Heart-shaped wooden body with two sound holes, an integral neck with twenty-nine frets, four metal strings and four ivory pegs. Stands on three feet

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Name: Goblet drum, Classification: Membranophones, Culture group: Tanzania, Culture group place: Tanzania, Description: Goblet-shaped, double-headed body. Heads of hide connected with thongs laced from top to bottom.

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Name: Bassoon, Classification: Aerophones, Culture group: British, Culture group place: Britain, Description: Wooden body, four sections. Pipes linked to the base pipe, with twenty silver keys and a separate mouthpiece.

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Name: Cornett, Classification: Aerophones, Culture group: Western European, Description: Black wooden, tapering tube with an ivory mouthpiece, six finger holes and one thumb hole. Outside is 6-sided. Approx. 17th century.