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Description: | According to Mercedes Mackay, who collected this instrument, probably in the 1940s, the molo can have seeds and shells attached to it which rattle as it is played. The player may also tap the resonator with a metal-capped finger.
Molo, tanged lute. Three strings made of twisted fibre, two attached to the top and one to the middle of the wooden neck with leather thongs. The neck passes into the trough-shaped wooden resonator, emerging at top of the large round soundhole in the skin soundtable, just below the bridge. The strings are attached to the tines at the base of the neck. The skin soundtable is laced to the back of the hollowed out resonator with vegetable fibre. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Subjects: | hide Hausa leather hair | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-12531 |
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