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Zylaphone
Zylaphone or balangi, a wood and fibre frame with a keyboard of graduating sized wooden keys with various sized globular gourd resonators strung below with a pair of wooden handled beaters bound at one end with natural leaf fibre: Africa, West Africa, Sierra Leone, late 19th century
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Late 19th century - Maker:
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National Museums Scotland - Inventory number:
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Sierra Leone