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Lamellaphone.
Technical description: Nine iron lamellae attached to a flat piece of wood, roughly the shape of a scallop shell; gourd resonator attached to top end of the wood by a string; identical to Bemba lamellaphones of Zambia called 'Kankobele'. Width 80 at bottom end; gourd circumference 335.
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Probably mid 19th century - Maker:
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University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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Central Africa (?). - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:122.12 Lamellaphones (or plucked idiophones) with laced-on, or hooked-in lamellae, with resonator
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:122.12 Lamellaphones (or plucked idiophones) with laced-on, or hooked-in lamellae, with resonator
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- Measurements:102
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/16578