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Board lamellaphone, made with a carved, scallop-shell-shaped wooden board with raised edges and a central soundhole, having nine lamellas made of iron alloy. The pressure bar and the bridge are also made of iron alloy, and while the first is attached to the resonator with metal wire, the latter is inserted into the wood surface. The backrest is carved from the board. A small gourd resonator is attached on the bottom of the board.
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Cyfarthfa Castle Museum - 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:Cyfarthfa Castle Museum
- Measurements:Lamellaphone height: 149mm; Lamellaphone width: 90mm; Height with gourd: 110mm