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Found throughout the Arabian Peninsula, this plucked short-necked lute is carved from a single wood block and its hollowed body is covered with lamb skin. Linguistic variants of its names are widely distributed from North African to Indonesia. In Sumatra the related term gambus is used to describe an instrument similar to the ūd.
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Title: Qanbūs
Date: 19th Century
Geography: Syria? Saudia Arabia
Culture: possibly Saudi or Syrian
Medium: Wood and skin.
Dimensions: 69cm x 12cm x 9cm
Classification: Chordophone-Lute-plucked-unfretted
Credit Line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889
Object Number: 89.4.394
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