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Xylophone.
Technical description: 18 wooden bars in bamboo frame with gourd resonators; bar width 50 - 30. Repair History: Partially retuned to diatonic scale by James Blades probably originally equi-heptatonic tuning. Holes in gourds for mirlitons (long missing) now covered by sellotape.
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University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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Africa - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:111.212 Sets of percussion sticks
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:111.212 Sets of percussion sticks
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- Measurements:955
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/18302