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Mandar bahar
Alternate name:Mandar baar
Alternate name:Long-neck lute
Alternate name:Bass esraj
Maker: H. Muntz
Date: 1940-1965 ca.
Place Made:Bengal, India, Asia
Serial No: none
SignedMarked: H. MUNTZ
DescriptionEssentially a bass esraj, but played in a standing position, similar to the Western double-bass. Used in modern Indian orchestras. Wood body with a parchment belly, seventeen movable frets, four principal strings (one for melody and three for drone), and fifteen brass sympathetic strings.
ProvenancePurchased in 1978 from H. M. Lissauer, Melbourne, Australia.
Terms
Credit Line: Board of Trustees, 1978
Not on view
Published ReferencesThomas E. Cross, Instruments of Burma, India, Nepal, Thailand and Tibet, SMM Catalog Vol. II (1982), page 13.
Thomas E. Cross, Instruments of Burma, India, Nepal, Thailand and Tibet, MM Thesis, USD, 1983. Page 26, Plate X.
André P. Larson, The National Music Museum: A Pictorial Souvenir (Vermillion: National Music Museum, 1988), p. 29.
Thomas E. Cross, Instruments of Burma, India, Nepal, Thailand and Tibet, MM Thesis, USD, 1983. Page 26, Plate X.
André P. Larson, The National Music Museum: A Pictorial Souvenir (Vermillion: National Music Museum, 1988), p. 29.
Object number: 02405