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Title: Mbila mutondo
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Venda (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 111.212 Sets of percussion sticks, Place of production: Limpopo (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20793

Title: Jakkalsrivier experimental area
Subject: Meteorological instruments--Western Cape (South Africa), Plants--Western Cape (South Africa), Mountain plants--Western Cape (South Africa), Scientists--Western Cape (South Africa), ,
Description: District: Caledon, Location: Lebanon State Forest, Jakkalsrivier experimental area., Ecology: Unknown.
Identifier: islandora:3510

Title: Thungwa
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Venda (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 211.212.1 Individual double-skin cylindrical drums, Place of production: Fundudzi, Lake (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20820

Title: Umrhubhe
Subject: Musical instruments--South African, Xhosa (African people)--Music, Pondo (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 311.21 Musical bow cum stick, A. Height: 28mm (0.8in), Width: 110mm (4.3in), Length: 1039mm (40.6in), B. Length: 485mm (18.9in), Diameter: 7mm (0.1in), Place of production: Eastern Cape (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20731

Title: Tshitiringo
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Venda (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 421.112.1 Sets of end-blown panpipes Open panpipes, A. Length: 372mm (14.6in), Diameter: 26mm (0.8in), B. Length: 339mm (13in), Diameter: 25mm (0.8in), C. Length: 324mm (12.6in), Diameter: 21mm (0.8in), D. Length: 345mm (13.4in), Diameter: 22mm (0.8), E. Length: 341mm (13.4in), Diameter: 19mm (0.4in), F. Length: 270mm (10.6in), Diameter: 20mm (0.8in), G. Length: 321mm (12.6in), Diameter: 16mm (0.4in), H. Length: 221mm (8.7in), Diameter: 21mm (0.8in), Place of production: Limpopo (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20302

Title: Ngoma
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Venda (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 211.11 Separate vessel drums, Place of production: South Africa
Identifier: islandora:20879

Title: Nay
Subject: Musical instruments, Arabs--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 421.111.12 Open single end-blown flutes with fingerholes, A. Length: 195mm (7.5in), Diameter: 18mm (0.4in), B. Length: 202mm (7.9in), Diameter: 18mm (0.4in), C. Length: 193mm (7.5in), Diameter: 14mm (0.4in), D. Length: 194mm (7.5in), Diameter: 18mm (0.4in), E. Length: 223mm (8.7in), Diameter: 20mm (0.8in), F. Length: 245mm (9.4in), Diameter: 21mm (0.8in)
Identifier: islandora:20903

Title: Recorder in C; descant recorder
Subject: Musical instruments--Great Britain
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 421.221.12 Flutes with internal duct with fingerholes, Length: 321mm (12.6 in.), Diameter: 25mm (0.8 in.), Place of production: Great Britain, Creator: Schotts
Identifier: islandora:20548

Title: Pala
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Venda (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 421.111.31 Partly-stopped single end-blown flutes without fingerholes, Length: 53mm (2in), Width: 82mm (3.1in), Length: 279mm (10.6in), Place of production: Limpopo (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20072

Title: Concert flute in D with five keys
Subject: Musical instruments--France--Paris
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 421.121.12 (Single) side-blown flutes with fingerholes, Length: 624mm (24.4 in.), Diameter: 29mm (0.8 in.), Place of production: Paris (France), Creator: Godfroy Aîné, Paris, Date of creation: 1803-1834
Identifier: islandora:20482

Title: Spike tube lute
Subject: Musical instruments--Zimbabwe
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 321.313-7 Spike tube lutes played by bowing, Place of production: Eiffel Flats (Zimbabwe)
Identifier: islandora:20195

Title: Ophicleide
Subject: Musical instruments--France--Paris
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 423.213 Chromatic labrosones with fingerholes with [wider] conical bore, Place of production: Paris (France), Creator: Courtois Frère, Date of creation: 1803-1845
Identifier: islandora:20362

Title: Tshitiringo
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, Venda (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 421.112.1 Sets of end-blown panpipes Open panpipes, A. Length: 372mm (14.6in), Diameter: 26mm (0.8in), B. Length: 339mm (13in), Diameter: 25mm (0.8in), C. Length: 324mm (12.6in), Diameter: 21mm (0.8in), D. Length: 345mm (13.4in), Diameter: 22mm (0.8), E. Length: 341mm (13.4in), Diameter: 19mm (0.4in), F. Length: 270mm (10.6in), Diameter: 20mm (0.8in), G. Length: 321mm (12.6in), Diameter: 16mm (0.4in), H. Length: 221mm (8.7in), Diameter: 21mm (0.8in), Place of production: Limpopo (South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20303

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: Musical bow
Subject: Musical instruments--Angola, San (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 311.121.2 Mono-heterochord musical bows with tuning noose with resonator, Place of production: Angola
Identifier: islandora:20273

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: Violin
Subject: Musical instruments-- South Africa--Cullinan
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 321.322 Necked box lutes or necked guitars, Height: 75mm (2.8 in.), Width: 217mm (8.3 in.), Length: 605mm (23.6 in.), Place of production: Zonderwater (Cullinan, South Africa), Creator: unidentified Italian prisoner of war at Zonderwater
Identifier: islandora:20569

Title: Woman playing the g//oaci
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, music, portrait, tradition, San, indigenous, instrument, sand, bushveld, San (African people)--Namibia--Music, Plucked instruments--Namibia, Namibia
Description: A woman playing the g//oaci, a stringed instrument. N?aqmtjoha, Namibia.
Identifier: islandora:11709

Title: /Ka/kanasi
Subject: Musical instruments--South Africa, San (African people)--Music
Description: Hornbostel-Sachs number: 3 Chordophone with resonator, A. Height: 16mm (0.4in), Width: 20mm (0.8in), Length: 97mm (3.5in), B. Height: 9mm (0.1in), Width: 9mm (0.1in), Length: 92mm (3.5in), Place of production: Twee Rivieren (Northern Cape, South Africa)
Identifier: islandora:20674

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