Zylaphone

Description

Zylaphone 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

Museum reference

A.1884.83.110

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Zylaphone

Production information

Unknown
Sierra Leone, Western Africa

Date

Late 19th century

Materials

Wood, Gourd, Wood, Natural fibre

Exhibitions

• 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)
  Donaldson's Hospital

On display

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