Chinese Three Stringed Banjo (San-Hsien)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1882
name: label: Donor Name
content: Chinese Centennial Commission
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "A GUITAR OF WOOD, WITH BODY COVERED ON BOTH SIDES WITH THE SKIN OF THE "TAN"-A SNAKE OF THE BOA FAMILY. IT HAS THREE STRINGS. A FAVORITE INSTRUMENT OF THE CHINESE, IT IS A NOTEWORTHY FACT THAT THE SEMI-TONES OF THE DIATONIC SCALE ARE GENERALLY AVOIDED BY THE CHINESE, WHO SEEM TO HAVE A PREDILECTION FOR THAT SERIES OF INTERVALS WHICH MAY BE CALLED THE PENTATONIC SCALE, BECUASE IT CONTAINS ONLY FIVE DIFFERENT INTERVALS IN AN OCTAVE."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: China, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chinese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 005892
label: USNM Number
content: E54021-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Banjo