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Psaltery (kanun)
Made by: Emin
about 1920–1930
Medium/Technique
Birch, spruce, planewood, chestnut (or butternut), walnut, maple, basswood, brass, calf skin.
Dimensions
Overall: 91.4 × 36.4 × 8.9 cm (36 × 14 5/16 × 3 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Morris and Louise Rosenthal Fund and John H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund
Accession Number2019.1822
CollectionsMusical Instruments
ClassificationsMusical instruments – Chordophones
DescriptionBack of birch. Some portions of sides of chestnut or butternut, veneered with walnut and inlaid with maple. Soundboard of spruce (though possibly cinar, i.e., planewood). Pegbox of basswood. Tuning levers (mandals) of brass.
ProvenanceMid-1960s, acquired by Jack Chalikian, Los Angeles; 1996, from Jack Chalikian to Peter Kyvelos (b. 1943 – d. 2017), Bedford, MA; 2017, by inheritance to his wife, Virginia Kyvelos, Bedford; 2019, sold by Virginia Kyvelos to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 25, 2019)