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1938.34.655

Lyre with oval wooden bowl resonator

1938.34.655

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Collection type
Object
Description
Lyre with oval wooden bowl resonator
Long description
Bowl-lyre; the resonator an oval wooden bowl covered with a skin belly glued on to the back and furnished with eight circular sound-holes alongside the uprights of the yoke. Yoke of smooth rounded sticks, the cross-bar morticed on the diverging upper ends of the uprights, which with their pointed lower ends protrude at the base of the resonator, after piercing the belly. Five strings of twisted vegetable fibre are wound round the cross-bar, converge towards the resonator, disappear through a hole in the belly and are fastened to a slender wooden toggle near the edge of the resonator bowl.
Person
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source Henry Balfour
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1911
Date collected
By 1911
Acquisition information
Bequeathed: 1939
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Material Animal Hide Skin, Material Plant Fibre, Process Carpentered, Process Covered, Process Twisted, Process Wound, Process Tied
Dimensions
Width: max 261 mm, Length: max 457 mm, Depth: max 80 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1938.34.655

Search terms: Music, Musical Instrument, Lyre

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