Production
-
where
-
Zambesi
Photographer: | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International
Full screen
Initial display
Zoom in
Zoom out
Previous image
Next image
Downloads the object
This collection item does not have a name in the language of origin. If you know the name or have comments, use this form to contact the data-providing institution.
Lamellophone
Shape: Solid wooden body with raised sides and a string hole, iron lamellae But the layout contains the characteristic "bend" in the pitch of the left hand - a zigzag movement in the pitches from lamella no. 3 to 5 to 7 and 9. Organologically, the mbira dza vadzimu also corresponds to the Zimbabwe/Zambezi mould circle. But there are the following elements, apart from the specific "layout" of the lamellae, which characterise the type. - The "board" is roughly tray-shaped. - This eliminates the need for a backrest or back bar. The slats can rest directly on the raised width of the upper edge of the tray. - The soundboard has a hole on the right near the edge, not a "sound hole" but a hole for the little finger to hold the instrument; a large calabash (absent here) serves as a resonator. The tray shape of the mbira dza vadzimu is thus the third isolable design form of the body of the large lamellophones of the Zimbabwe/Zambezi mould circle. Gerhard Kubik: Kalimba, Nsansi, Mbira - Lamellophones in Africa: Veröffentlichungen des Museums für Völkerkunde Berlin (SMB), 1998 - Neue Folge 68 - Musikethnologie X, p. 242 (Fig. 182)
This content was machine-translated
- Data Provider
- Ethnologisches Museum Show original at data provider
Cataloguing data
- Object type
- musical instruments
- Dimensions
-
Height: 2,3 cm
Depth: 18 cm
Width: 21 cm - Material/Technique
-
Wood, Iron
- Current location
- Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Inventory number
- III D 4165
Provenance and sources
-
Production
-
Collecting
-
Assignment to a curated holding:
Africa
Information about the record
- Legal status metadata
- CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
Related objects
daluka
Information about the language not available
Save
daluka
This collection item does not have a name in the language of origin. If you know the name or have comments, use this form to contact the data-providing institution.
Save
Clarinet playing
This collection item does not have a name in the language of origin. If you know the name or have comments, use this form to contact the data-providing institution.
Save
Jaguar
This collection item does not have a name in the language of origin. If you know the name or have comments, use this form to contact the data-providing institution.
Save
Trumpet (elephant tusk)
ngoma
Information about the language not available
Save
single-finned open hourglass drum
balingbing
Information about the language not available
Save
balingbing
This collection item does not have a name in the language of origin. If you know the name or have comments, use this form to contact the data-providing institution.
Save
Music bow and resonators (xylophone fragments)
This collection item does not have a name in the language of origin. If you know the name or have comments, use this form to contact the data-providing institution.
Save
Gong playing
This collection item does not have a name in the language of origin. If you know the name or have comments, use this form to contact the data-providing institution.
Save
Rattle
This collection item does not have a name in the language of origin. If you know the name or have comments, use this form to contact the data-providing institution.
Save
Dance rattles (vessel rattle)
endere
Information about the language not available
Save
open longitudinal flute with finger holes
This content was machine-translated