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Treble Kalimba. Nominal pitch: G.
Technical description: Factory-produced box-resonated lamellaphone with 17 steel lamellae; no buzzing devices (a European preference); large sound-hole in middle of top face of box, two smaller holes in bottom face.Tongues arranged to sound heptatonic (European) scale centred on G.
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Circa 1970 - Maker:
African Musical Instruments - Collection:
University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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Roodeport/South 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:184
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/18084