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A descriptive catalogue of the musical instruments in the South Kensington museum, preceded by an essay on the history of musical instruments, 1874
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1examination of a MS. collection of about thirty popular Burmese tunes, as they are usually played on the thro, written down by an English gentleman residing in Rangoon, it would appear that when the Burmese musician accompanies his vocal effusions with the thro, he plays the melody in unison with his voice, indulging, however, occasionally in more or less extended interludes, performed as a solo on the instrument between the strophes of his song.
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5THRO. Burmese violin. The head elaborately carved. Three silken strings. Burmese. Made probably in the 18th century, if not earlier.
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9KHREW. A small bell. Burmese. 19th century. To the clapper is attached a thin plate of metal, gilt, in the form of a leaf. A number of these bells are generally suspended from the roofs or projections of the different stories of the Buddhist temples. The wind moving the leaf causes the clapper to strike the bell. The sound of the khew is remarkably clear and sustained.
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13SARINDA; also called chihikong. A Hindu violin with three strings. It is made of a single block of wood, hollowed and carved. The upper part of the body is left partially open, and is partially covered with skin resembling bladder, generally from a species of gazelle. Indian.
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17CHIKARAH. Indian (from Bombay). An instrument of the violin class. It is cut out of a single block of wood, which, when rubbed or damped, emits a peculiar aromatic
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