Salo (instrument)

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Saw lo (สะล้อ)
Saw lo (สะล้อ), rear view, showing the sound hole and the neck of the instrument going through the sound-box, a feature of the larger spiked-lute family.

The salo, saw lo, or salaw (Thai: สะล้อ) is a Thai spike fiddle with three strings (strung on 2-pegs), native to the Lanna cultural region of northern Thailand.

Strung today with 3 wires for strings, but formerly had silk strings.[1]

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  1. ^ "Northern Folk Music {Northern Folk Music]". prakaydown.blogspot.com. 9 September 2014. Retrieved 11 October 2018. author pseudonym on Google+ is ประกายดาว กองเขียว (Sparkling Green Stars)

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