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Musical Instrument (Lamellophone)
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Widespread on the entire African continent and especially south of the Sahara, "thumb pianos" such as this are to this day not only used together with other musical instruments to accompany dance on festive occasions; their "voice" sometimes also serves the educational purposes of history tellers. This type of instrument comes in many variants, but in all cases several lamellas are mounted on a board or a resonance body and are plucked with the fingers to create music. Text: Sandra Ferracuti.

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Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde
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Cultural attribution
Ambo
Object type
Musikinstrument
Dimensions
Länge: 20.5 cm, Breite: 14.5 cm
Material/Technique
Wood, Iron
Forged, carved, plugged in
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
030190

Provenance and sources

when
around 1900

where
Namibia

when
1903
who
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Provenance
Gustav Pahl worked between 1898 and 1908 in "German South-West Africa". He acquired and bought objects during longer business trips, as he reported in letters to Graf von Linden. He did not specify whether he acquired these objects from middlemen or the producers. Text: Christoph Rippe.

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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED

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