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Stringed instrument "rhabab" (bowed harp) The two long sides of the boat-shaped wooden body are strongly curved inwards between two peg-like projections. A skin completely enveloping the resonator and the base of the neck and sewn together on the underside of the shell. The neck is a round piece of wood that is only slightly curved and straight in the upper section. Shaft shape. Five slender, left flank pegs made of wood with offset pegheads. The original strings made of plant material are only fragmentary (since replaced). Two diagonally arranged, round membrane openings. A fully sculpted human head with a high hairstyle at the end of the neck. Below the sculpture a full-surface, opposing notched pattern. Ankermann: 14-16 (with illus.). Kubik 1983a: 390 (with illus.). Krieger, Kurt: Westafrikani- sche Plastik, vol. 3, Berlin 1969, p. 99 and ill. 358 (= Veröffentlichungen des Museums für Völ¬kerkunde Berlin, Neue Folge 18, Abt. Afrika V). from Ulrich Wegner: Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente, Staatliche Museen Berlin - SPK, 1984 (appendix object catalogue)
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Piercing tongue shawm
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Cone drum
gusle
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gusle
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Lamellophone
khéne (ken, khen)
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khéne (ken, khen)
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open longitudinal flute with finger holes
Cajón
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Cajón
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Fragment of a clay rattle (clay head)
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Percussion disc play
tarka
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tarka
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