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samsa | Photographer: Gisela Croon | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Index card: Rectangular wooden box hollowed out from the narrow side. 10 deer stalks lying next to each other and bound together, with 9 long bamboo slivers on top This instrument was made entirely of vegetable material. The body is a "raft" made from a total of 10 bamboo canes, bound together in the lower half according to a system that always joins two neighbouring canes. The slats are made of bamboo, slightly tapered at the playing ends and fixed in such a way that they are attached to the raft between two similar straight bars, also made of bamboo - front and back bars if you like - by means of a pressure bar (also made of bamboo). The pressure beam is tied in a cross pattern, but the binding cords are attached to another bamboo crossbar that pierces the row of 10 bamboo tubes forming the raft. Further reserve material for binding is ornamentally woven into the upper end of the slats, but is easily movable. The 9 bamboo slats are arranged in a V-shape. A tuning can no longer be reconstructed. Gerhard Kubik: Kalimba, Nsansi, Mbira - Lamellophones in Africa: Veröffentlichungen des Museums für Völkerkunde Berlin (SMB), 1998 - Neue Folge 68 - Musikethnologie X, pp. 229-230 (Fig. 167)
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- musical instruments
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Height: 2,5 cm
Depth: 21 cm
Width: 38 cm - Current location
- Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Inventory number
- III E 8743
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