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Box lamellaphone.
Technical description: Hollowed out trapezoid box; thin sound table added; eleven lamellae, some made from umbrella spokes; two sound holes, one in back operated by finger of left hand, other in end. The maker's first attempt.
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1967 - Maker:
Busulwa, Blasio - Collection:
University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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Kampala/Uganda - 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:210
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/15332