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Lamellaphone
This instrument was one of a number of items from West Africa given by Wyatt George Gibson, Esq., a prominent banker in Saffron Walden who was one of the founding trustees of the museum. It is a lamellaphone, also known as thumb piano, made of a wooden board with five V-shaped lamellas made of the hard outer skin of raffia (Raphia sp.), attached to the board with rattan. The bridge and backrest are also made of a thin strip of raffia.
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1800–40 - Maker:
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Saffron Walden Museum - Inventory number:
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Ghana - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:122.11 Lamellaphones (or plucked idiophones) with laced-on, or hooked-in lamellae, without resonator
- Culture:Asante
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:122.11 Lamellaphones (or plucked idiophones) with laced-on, or hooked-in lamellae, without resonator
- Repository:Saffron Walden Museum
- Measurements:Height: 205mm; Width: 125mm