Context (CMS Context)
Picken Collection catalogue card reads:

'77.427 S. E. Asia Laos
412.132: sets of free reeds / Mouth-organ with 14 pipes, the largest size made / in Laos. khaen [underlined]. One pipe terminates in a spike (extra-neous) / Acquired from Horniman Museum c. 1960 by exchange. / See pictures of bamboo mouth-organs of this type in the / Unesco Collection of records: 'A musical anthology of the Orient' - Laos.
- coll. Dr. L. E. R. Picken - numbered 305'
Event Date 29/4/2016
Author: Olivia Maguire

Context (CMS Context)
Other numbers, 412.132 and 305, as listed on Picken Collection catalogue card.
Event Date 29/4/2016
Author: Olivia Maguire

Context (CMS Context)
Found on box list for Picken Box 59 but without database record. This record created from information available on Picken Collection catalogue card. Object not physically seen.
Event Date 29/4/2016
Author: Olivia Maguire

Description (CMS Description)
Sets of free reeds. Mouth-organ with 14 pipes, the largest size made in Laos. khaen. [underlined] One pipe terminates in a spike (extra-neous).
Event Date 29/4/2016
Author: Olivia Maguire

Context (CMS Context)
Letter (Archive 2, W16/1/1, Large Box N) from Robin [Rattray] (Monks, Priorswood, Compton, Guildford) to Laurence Picken, dated 9 June 1977 reads:
‘The instruments you ask about were all collected in Laos in 1960. Some I found myself in rather remote villages in Southern Laos, not fair from a place called Saravanne [sic.] which was later devastated by American bombing. The others were obtained from the Royal School of Music in Vientiane. I suppose that may also have disappeared now. There are of course some similarities with the music and dance of Thailand and Laos which could easily cause confusion.’
Event Date 3/5/2016
Author: Olivia Maguire