Qānūn

Medium

Wood; parchment; gut strings; mother-of-pearl, ivory, bone, ebony inlay; shells; gold foil; metal; brass

Dimensions

D. 3 11/16 × L. 38 1/16 × W. 15 1/2 in. (9.3 × 96.6 × 39.4 cm)

Classification

Chordophone-Zither-plucked

Culture

Turkish

Department

Musical Instruments

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889

Accession Number

89.4.330