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Lamellaphone
Thumb Piano; This hand made west African version of a lamellophone known in Africa as an mbira, ikembe, likembe, kalimba, karimba, matapee, sansa, or luvale. It has an octave made of eight thin adjustable iron strips wedged over an iron fret. The sound board is fixed with metal pins and glued to a resonator in the form of a carved figurine decorated with a glass bead necklace and head ornaments of cast [lead].
- Date:
1700 - 1899 - Maker:
- Collection:
The Hunterian - Inventory number:
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West Africa , Gold Coast
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- Materials:
- Specific materials/techniques:wood, iron, glass beads
- Decorative elements:
- Inscriptions:LA.15. (old departmental catalogue number in aluminium paint).|Embossed maltese cross surmounted by a crown and a rose bush pattern (cast in [lead] from ? old military insignia such as cap badges).
- Hornbostel-Sachs category:
- Repository:The Hunterian
- View the original record:http://collections.gla.ac.uk/#details=ecatalogue.4994