A Descriptive Catalogue of the Musical Instruments in the South Kensington Museu
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Musical Instruments in the South Kensington Museu
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Ioj-. ) This drum, as alfo the other mufical inflruments from Britifh Burmah here mentioned, were manufactured at Pazoongdoung, the Burmefe quarter of the town of Rangoon. 1638. '72. BONDOUNG. Long drum. Wood, bound lengthwife with ftrips of fkin. Britifh Burmah. L. 3 ft. , Diam. 8 in. (Bought from the Annual International Exhibition, 1872, i8j. ) 176 Catalogue of Muftcal htftruments. 1630. '72. P ATTALA, or Patolah. Wooden harmonicon. The cafe painted black and red, and gilt ; carved in low re...- lief with dragons, birds, and tracery. Britijh Burmah. H. 1 ft. 9 in. , L. 2 ft. 8 in. (Bought from the Annual Inter- national Exhibition, 1872, 5/. $s. ) The pattala contains fonorous (lips of wood or bamboo, fixteen or eighteen in number, of graduated lengths, the largeft of which is from twelve to fifteen inches long, and two inches broad. They are ftrung on a double cord, and are fufpended over an open founding-box re- fembling a trough, or a boat. The roundiih outfide of the bamboos is uppermost.
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