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Musical Instruments in the South Kensington Museum: West African Marimba, or Balafo, 1870. Creator: Unknown.

Musical Instruments in the South Kensington Museum: West African Marimba, or Balafo, 1870. Creator: Unknown.

3-028-622 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Musical Instruments in the South Kensington Museum: West African Marimba, or Balafo, 1870. 'A singular implement of negro music, called the marimba or balafo...It is about 3 ft. 2 in. long,...consisting of a series of wooden slabs, having gourds suspended beneath them to give fulness of sound. The slabs are beaten with a pair of drum-sticks, the ends of which are knobs of caoutchouc [rubber]. This instrument has a solemn and rather doleful effect. It is used at funerals by the negroes of Kooranko, near Sierra Leone'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.

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Creator
  1. Unknown, attributed to: :
After
  1. J. T. Balcomb: : Artist
Picture Type
  1. Object
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Society & Culture Music

History & Politics Artefacts

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Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 4960x2533
File Size : 12,270kb

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  1. ILN_1870_Page_464_o.jpg
  1. 1870
  1. 0580094172
  1. 3-028-622
  1. 3028622
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