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Lamellaphone or treble Kalimba.
Technical description: Box-shaped built resonator, 260 × 98 × 39. Eight wooden lamellae, possibly bamboo.Obviously much used, the top of box pitted by action of thumb nails.
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Early 20th 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:260
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/17011