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Plucked idiophone with laced reeds and resonator

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The instrument has a wooden body with reeds made of raffia material. The six slats were arranged in a V-shape and therefore had their lowest tone in the centre. The lamellae were tuned using tuning wax, which was glued to the underside of the ends of the lamellae in lumps of different sizes in order to tune them precisely. Holes were drilled into the lower narrow side of the board, as this is where the rattle device, consisting of an iron clamp with metal rings threaded onto it, was once located. Gerhard Kubik: Kalimba, Nsansi, Mbira - Lamellophones in Africa: Veröffentlichungen des Museums für Völkerkunde Berlin (SMB), 1998 - Neue Folge 68 - Musikethnologie X, p. 172

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Cataloguing data

Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Height: 41 cm
Depth: 4 cm
Width: 17,5 cm
Weight: 365 g
Material/Technique
Wood, Metal
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VII f 72

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Africa
  • Collecting
    who
    Koehler - Collectors
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Access 1979
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnomusicology

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

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