hummel (Medieval pear-shaped drone zither)

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Beschreibung

Whole or half-pear shaped wooden body, it is partly fretted and has two string-courses; melody and drone. The name comes from Germanic words meaning bumblebee or buzzing.

Beziehungen

von:Dänemark
Flanders (Flämische Region), Belgien
Niederlande, Kingdom of the Netherlands
Northern Germany
used in:medieval
Typ von:Zither
Ableitungen:akkordolia (German keyed box zither)
Appalachian dulcimer (Folk drone zither from N. America)
Bild:https://static.metabrainz.org/irombook/hummel/hummel.png [Info]
Wikidata:Q2094724 [Info]
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