Working photo | Photographer: Anika Niemeck | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Index card (music): "Plucked tongue game. Seven iron tongues are attached to a board with a distantly trapezoidal outline. They are held in place by a brass wire bracket which clamps against an iron bridge and the end of the board. Adjustable. Length: 13 cm Width 9 cm" Lamellophone with a fan-shaped body has only six reeds. Perhaps it was a child's instrument. The tuning can hardly be determined. The shape of the fan can be safely assigned to the types that developed in the northern region of Zimbabwe and across the middle Zambezi. The U-shape of the iron bridge is interesting - so the straight shape has already been abandoned (cf. also specimen III D 3000, cat. no. 123). The attribution on the card is interesting: "Simba", but "Maschona" is still written underneath. Unfortunately, Andrew Tracey was unable to comment on this. from: Gerhard Kubik: Kalimba, Nsansi, Mbira - Lamellophones in Africa: Veröffentlichungen des Museums für Völkerkunde Berlin (SMB), 1998 - Neue Folge 68 - Musikethnologie X, p. 227
