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NigeriaNew Calabar (New Calabar)
Working photo | Photographer: Juliane Padluschat | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalPhotographer: Susanna Schulz | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalSansa The instrument is a small lamellophone made of calabar with the eight lamellae attached in a W-shaped chain-stitch arrangement. The resonance box was nailed together from no less than six rectangular parts: Soundboard, back and four side walls: the absence of any decoration is striking. Gerhard Kubik: Kalimba, Nsansi, Mbira - Lamellophones in Africa: Veröffentlichungen des Museums für Völkerkunde Berlin (SMB), 1998 - Neue Folge 68 - Musikethnologie X, p. 135