Dulcimer (Yang Ch'In)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1882
name: label: Donor Name
content: Chinese Centennial Commission
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "A KIND OF DULCIMER. WOOD, WITH COVER, AND WITH 21 WIRE STRINGS, 7 OF WHICH ARE TWISTED, 14 SINGLE, WITH SEPARATE PEGS, AND EVIDENTLY ARRANGED AND TUNED IN PAIRS. THE YANG-KIN IS BELIEVED BY AUTHORITIES TO BE COMPARATIVELY MODERN IN ORIGIN-PERHAPS A MODIFICATION OF THE SANTIR, AN INSTRUMENT WELL KNOWN IN HINDUSTAN AND IN WESTERN ASIA. THE STRINGS ARE SO PLACED AS TO RUN ALTERNATELY THROUGH ONE OF THE TWO BRIDGES AND OVER THE OTHER. THE WIRES ARE STRUCK WITH TWO SMALL WOODEN HAMMERS."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Feb 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: China, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chinese
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 005892
label: USNM Number
content: E54025-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dulcimer