Search results

Title: Spike tube lute
Subject: Musical instruments--Kenya
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 321.313-7 Spike tube lutes played by bowing, Place of production: Kisumu (Kenya)
Identifier: islandora:20190

Title: Sheng; mouth-organ
Subject: Musical instruments--China
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 412.132 Sets of free reeds, Place of production: China
Identifier: islandora:20409

Title: Spike tube lute
Subject: Musical instruments--Africa, East
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 321.313-7 Spike tube lutes played by bowing, Place of production: Inhambane (Mozambique)
Identifier: islandora:20188

Title: Penny whistle
Subject: Musical instruments--Great Britain
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 421.2 Flutes with duct or duct flutes, Height: 18mm (0.8 in.), Width: 16mm (0.8 in.), Length: 288mm (11 in.), Place of production: Great Britain, Creator: R. Clarke
Identifier: islandora:20645

Title: Double action harp
Subject: Musical instruments--England--London
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 322.212.1 Chromatic frame harps with the strings in one plane, Place of production: London (England), Creator: J. F. Brown, Date of creation: 19th century
Identifier: islandora:20531

Title: Tai ping xiao
Subject: Musical instruments--China
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 421.221.12 Flutes with internal duct with fingerholes, Place of production: China
Identifier: islandora:20539

Title: Valiha
Subject: Musical instruments--Madagascar
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 312.11 ldiochord (true) tube zithers, Height: 95mm (37.4 in.), Width: 135mm (5.1 in.), Length: 760mm, Place of production: Madagascar
Identifier: islandora:20509

Title: Uveve (?)
Subject: Musical instruments
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 421.222.11 Sets of open flutes with internal duct without fingerholes
Identifier: islandora:20113

Title: Wax cylinders in containers; cardboard box
Subject: Boxes--United States, Dictating machines--United States, Dictaphone Corp., Wax--United States
Description: Place of production: United States
Identifier: islandora:20031

Title: Flute with external duct with fingerholes
Subject: Musical instruments--Ghana
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 421.211.12 Flutes with external duct with fingerholes, Length: 441mm (17.3in), Diameter: 50mm (2in), Place of production: Achimota (Ghana), Creator: Ephraim Amu
Identifier: islandora:20865

Title: Practice violin
Subject: Musical instruments
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 321.322 Necked box lutes or necked guitars, Height: 60mm (2.4 in.), Width: 150mm (5.9 in.), Length: 605mm
Identifier: islandora:20564

Title: Clarinet in A
Subject: Musical instruments
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 422.211.2 Individual reedpipes with single reeds with cylindrical bore, with fingerholes, Creator: Possibly Adler, Ebonite is useful for military bands because it doesn’t break easily.
Identifier: islandora:20398

Title: Oboe
Subject: Musical instruments--France--Paris
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 422.111.2 (Single) reedpipes with double (or quadruple) reeds oboes, with cylindrical bore, with fingerholes, A. Length: 244mm (9.4 in.), Diameter 38mm (1.2 in.), B. Length: 230mm (9.1 in.), Diameter: 35mm (1.2 in.), C. Length: 142mm (5.5 in.), Diameter: 156mm (5.9 in.), Place of production: Paris (France), Creator: Triébert, Paris, Date of creation: After 1827, Inscription: ‘Exposition de 1827’, so post 1827. A late Triébert. Date by the number of battlements on castle. Two generations, father and son, one has three and the other four battlements. But the key work on the instrument is older than that date.
Identifier: islandora:20593

Title: Prof. Kirby sounding the fascimile of the (?) Egyptian trumpet, the original of which is in the Louvre. On the table is his copy of the bronze trumpet of Tut-ank-hamen. This photograph
Description: Wind
Identifier: islandora:25807

Title: Wax cylinders in containers; cardboard box
Subject: Boxes--United States, Dictating machines--United States, Dictaphone Corp., Wax--United States
Description: Place of production: United States
Identifier: islandora:20036

Title: A 'pellet bell' on a leather strap with ties
Subject: Musical instruments--Africa, East
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 112.13 Vessel rattles, Height: 45mm (1.6 in.), Width: 208mm (7.9 in.), Length: 622mm, Place of production: Africa, East
Identifier: islandora:20315

Title: Kuan
Subject: Musical instruments--China
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 422.111.1 (Single) reedpipes with double (or quadruple) reeds, without fingerholes, with conical bore, Height: 16mm (0.8 in.), Width: 19mm (0.8 in.), Length: 211mm (8.3 in.), Place of production: China
Identifier: islandora:20422

Title: Mbira or ndandi
Subject: Musical instruments--Zimbabwe
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 122.12 Lamellaphones or (plucked idiophones) with lace-on, or hooked-in lamellae with resonator, Height: 33mm (1.2in), Width: 223mm (8.7in), Length: 135mm (5.1in), Resonator. Height: 116mm (4.3in), Diameter: 155mm (5.9in), Place of production: Zimbabwe
Identifier: islandora:20697

Share