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Music bar with a single resonance calabash

A plant tube cut off near two nodes. A string [consisting] of twisted animal tissue passed through a perforation at one end of the tube into the interior of the tube and tied to a crossbar. The string [is] passed over the notched cross-sectional surface at the other end of the tube and then wound around the rod several times. A calabash open at the bottom. [The knot [is] fixed by the connecting string inside the resonator. The striking bar is missing. Perforations burnt diagonally over the entire length of the upper half of the tube, of different sizes and partly arranged in groups. from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (Appendix Object Catalogue)

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Wakinga
Object type
musical instruments
Dimensions
Length: 104,7 cm
Diameter: 9,3 cm
Material/Technique
Wood, Plant fibre , Pumpkin peel
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III E 7834 a,b

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Tanzania
    who
    Wakinga
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Africa

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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