tube fiddle
The endingidi (endingiri in Luganda) is a type of bowed string instrument native to Uganda. The endingidi has one string, extending from the neck to a cylindrical sound-box or resonator made of wood or cow horn. • Illustration — Endingidi A piece of hide is stretched over the top of the cylinder and is fixed to the sound-box with wooden pegs, thorny spines or nowadays also with metal nails. The hide used is usually that of the monitor lizard (varanus exanthematicus) but also of young goats and sheep or even of the python.
Also recorded as Fiddle String · African violin
tube fiddle

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- bowed string instrument
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- Uganda
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- string · wood
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Bowed string instrument native to Uganda.
Materials recorded for it are string and wood. It is associated with Uganda.
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