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View full screenZylaphone or balangi, a wood and fibre frame with a keyboard of graduating sized wooden keys with various sized globular gourd resonators strung below with a pair of wooden handled beaters bound at one end with natural leaf fibre: Africa, West Africa, Sierra Leone, late 19th century
A.1884.83.110
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Sierra Leone, Western Africa
Late 19th century
Wood, Gourd, Wood, Natural fibre
Performance and Lives (29 Jul 2011)
National Museum of Scotland
Man and Music (16 Aug 1983 - 15 Jan 1984)
Royal Scottish Museum
International Forestry Exhibition, Edinburgh (01 Jul 1884 - 30 Sep 1884)
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