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Description: | This alboka was formerly in the collection of the Canterbury Royal Museum, prior to 1899. Their records for the instrument included a letter from Arthur H. Frere, the Honorary Keeper of Musical Instruments at the Royal College of Music, dated 13.12.1929, in which he commented on the rarity of the instrument and stated that he knew of only one other exampe in a museum collection, in the Basque Museum at Bayonne.
Alboka, double hornpipe. A pair of cane pipes, the pipe to the player’s right with five round finger holes, the pipe on the left with three, parallel with the bottom three on the right pipe. At the proximal end, the pipes are inserted into a cow-horn wind cap. Within the wind cap each pipe has a single reed at its proximal end, and the tops of the pipes are tied to a flat board beneath. The wind cap and the bell are both conical, upward curving sections of horn flaring outwards from the pipe and incised with bands of decoration. The rim of the bell is ringed by a row of circular holes. A wooden handle is positioned on the underside of the pipes. The handle is semi-circular with two radial arms connecting it with the midpoint of the pipes’ lower surface. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Subjects: | wood hornpipes vegetable fibre paint horn copper alloy | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-14325 |
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