The link is not showing any instrument?

oh .. but can you see the picture? or it doesn't show anything?

or do you mean that is not instrument?

All the link shows is a teddy bear looking out a window!! 555

Can see it now - looks like part of a music box - where did you find it?

actually i found it in Malacca but I didn't realize that it's a kind of instrument ...

Do you wind it up?

no no .. use fingers to play it .. do you see the 7 small irons .? it has different tones .. ^^

It looks like a traditional metal harp, of the kind in a musicbox, but much bigger, I would think You need sticks to hammer on this one...

The plate under seem to hold a resonance chamber ?

As it has only 7 tones, I would therefore call it a bass instrument...

But a possible name would include harp so for my guess "bass metal harp" or "bass bell harp"...

Both names are very surely wrong but I think descriptive...

Do you wind it up?

I also have record the sound of this instrument .. but i don't know how to post it here .. any suggestion?

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The plate under seem to hold a resonance chamber ?

As it has only 7 tones, I would therefore call it a bass instrument...

But a possible name would include harp so for my guess "bass metal harp" or "bass bell harp"...

Both names are very surely wrong but I think descriptive...

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LOL .. thanks for your trying and you maybe right

It doesn't seem to appear in lists of traditional Malysian instruments so I am guessing it is something of a hybrid - with the decoration from the local area and the actual workings looking like an adaptation of the mechanism inside a music box. What size is it?

It doesn't seem to appear in lists of traditional Malysian instruments so I am guessing it is something of a hybrid - with the decoration from the local area and the actual workings looking like an adaptation of the mechanism inside a music box. What size is it?

The size is like a coconut shell ..

The size is like a coconut shell ..

I think it would be played with the fingers then.

But a mystery!

I post it here coz I think there are many tourists are using this site .. so they might know ..

I also see this instrument in Singapore .. but I was in the guest house .. so i guess some tourists may just dropped it there .

.... I am curious to know how to play it ...