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Category
Musical instruments, devices and recordings
Date
1890 - 1950
Materials
wood, buffalo hide and ivory
Measurements
790 mm (Height) x 220 mm (Depth)
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Fenton House, London
NT 1448934
Summary
Rubab, Afghanistan, Pakistan or northern India, early 20th century. The hollowed double-chambered resonance body and neck is made of a single piece of mulberry wood, the sound box covered in buffalo skin, and with bone and mother-of-pearl inlays. The inlays are geometric and sometimes atypical of Afghani rubabs. A woven belt, possibly cotton, is fixed with a metal hook to the body and peg box. There are no pegs in the highly decorated peg box, but 7 open peg holes. All strings, frets, string holders, the nut and the bridge are also missing. Previously catalogued (as early as 1963) as a sarinda.
Provenance
Acquired after destruction of Old Devonshire House in 1941.