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Xylophone
This is a typical gourd-resonated, frame xylophone set used in Western Africa. It has fifteen wooden keys attached and suspended with hide lacing on a trapezoid-shaped wooden frame with arched struts at each end. Each key has a respective, graded-size gourd resonator underneath (four missing), which has a circular opening to receive a mirliton membrane.
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1900–25 - Maker:
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Saffron Walden Museum - Inventory number:
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West Africa - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:111.212 Sets of percussion sticks
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:111.212 Sets of percussion sticks
- Repository:Saffron Walden Museum
- Measurements:Length: 910mm; Height: 257mm; Depth: 430mm