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Researches into the early history of the violin family, 1883
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1and the same is the case with the neck and the foot of the instrument. The back of the body generally consists of a portion of a cocoa-nut shell, and is perforated with nine small soundholes placed together in the figure of a cross. The belly is of parchment. The instrument is usually played by the leader of the band in a Javanese orchestra; but it is not found with those tribes in Java who have had little inter-
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5Fig. 22. Kemangeh-a-gouz: Persia.
7course with the nations of Western Asia. The latter circumstance affords an additional evidence to those suggesting that the Javanese rebab was derived from the Arabs and Persians.
9The kemangeh-a-gouz is to be found in Persia, Arabia, Syria, Egypt—in fact, in almost every country where the Mohammedan faith has been established. The Persian specimen, of which an engraving is here annexed, is also
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