Featured african ? stringed insrument

hey guys

can anyone give any information regarding this musical instrument

African in origin ?, or are they made everywhere

its a proper functioning, tunable thing, cant find one like it, or find a name for it

tourist piece ?

any help appreciated

 

It looks Asian, with Australian Aboriginal decoration added later.

 

interesting, thanks aj, that was my thoughts regarding the decoration too

 

@all_fakes

 

It isn't familiar to me; however, compare
http://sourceprojects.blogspot.com/2014/03/asian-traditional-musical-instruments-ii.html
listed as from Indonesia: "Cekuntrung, a stringed musical instrument....It has 4 or 2 strings in single courses. The strings are often made of metal, but sometimes of nylon or fishing line."



This does look playable, but perhaps not of professional quality; and in export items, Indonesian craftspersons are pretty free in using decorative motifs taken from a variety of sources, including Australian aboriginal styles.

 

brilliant info mate, thanks for your time

just the info i needed

 

you nailed it !!

https://stringedinstrumentdatabase.aornis.com/c.htm

 

bought a lovely uke today, paid quite alot (£75) but had to have it, cant wait to get it set up and playing, dated 1915

 

Uke have yer work cut out for you....
but the condition looks primo.....enough for a fine restoration....

 

yeah, no cracks or splits. might be a keeper this one, depends if i like the sound

 

Nice uke! Quality instruments are almost always worth restoring.

 

Oh...Charles.......is that Van I see ????

 

It is, I recognized 'the Man'. (I thought he might have joined the forum)

 

the man it (and he is) is

found a 1st pressing of astral weeks in a charity shop last year, and haven't stop playing it since

unbelievable album, so surprised i had not heard of it before, its spellbinding !!

 

sounds like you're going.....Into the Mystic !!! Heehee!!!!

 

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-miracle-of-van-morrisons-astral-weeks

 

interesting article mate, thanks

album completed in just 3 sessions !!,

never realised he wrote through automatic writing either, velly velly interesting

who would have thought that testing a record to see if it played ok, would end in finding your favourite album of all time !!

 

sometimes good things....just happen that way !!!!

 

Wonderful!