Tambura. Wooden, pear-shaped. 7 gut, moveable frets. 7 T-shaped pegs with tips of ivory (4 frontal, 3 lateral). Finger board of inlaid wood and mother of pearl. 6 round mother of pearl inlays in front of peg box. 6 round mother of pearl inlays also in sound board. End above peg box pointed. Metal strings. Poor condition. Bottom of body broken and pieces missing. Frets unraveled. 2 pegs missing. Some inlay missing. Sound board cracked badly.Length: 30cm. Width sound board: 11.5 cm. Depth of body: 13 cm.
El-oud. Round backed lute, large body with short neck. Body has thin lins of light colored wood inlya. Sound board of light wood; Sound hole with rose. Neck inlaid with ivory in scroll designs. Peg box curved back. 14 lateral pegs. Fair condition. Body cracked in several places, 1 peg missing.Length: 90 cm. Diam of body: 34.8 cm. Body depth: 19 cm.Inlaid
Metal (silver plate?). Scales carved in each end of bow, curved snake head as hand grip. Light hair bound with leather at one end, tied around notch at other end. Good condition. Some hair torn, accompanying fiddle missing.Length: 59.5 cm.
Shepherd's Pipe (Double Reed). Pipes are light brown with 6 front holes carved in eachpipe. Mouth end is thinner than rest of pip. The 2 pipes are attached to each other by string at 4 places. String attached to each end of pipes used as handleMeijiwiz (double reed). Pipes are light brown with 6 frontal holes carved in each pipe. Mouth end is thinner than rest of pipe. The 2 piepes are attached to each other by string at 4 places. String attached to each end of pipes used as handle. Good condition. (N. Martin 1872)
Special instruments were used by priests and priestesses to invoke the deities or to perform rituals before them. One of the most important instruments was the sistrum, a rattle associated with the goddess Hathor. The goddess's face is often incorporated into the sistrum's design, as is, in this example, an image of the god Bes, which serves as the object's handle. Inside of the naos-shaped top is a small cat below the clappers.
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Zourna. Bell Section curves up slightly. Bell section marked by bulging ring (open carved); section held while playing is wrapped with copper wire;cupped mouthpiece. Bell is eight-sided. Carved decoration at top of conical bell and at bottom edge. Good condition.Zourna. Dark wooden body, entirely covered with surface carvings. 7 frontal and 1 dorsal stop, a leather band encircling the oboe before each hole. Bottom of oboe is flared. Red cloth wrapped around reed holder, ivory disk fits below reed. Good condition. Length: 39cm, Diam. of bell: 5.5cm.Carved