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  2. Marimba - Wikipedia

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    The marimba (/ m ə ˈ r ɪ m b ə / mə-RIM-bə) is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets. Below each bar is a resonator pipe that amplifies particular harmonics of its sound. Compared to the xylophone, the marimba has a lower range. Typically, the bars of a marimba are arranged ...

  3. Balafon - Wikipedia

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    The balafon (pronounced / ˈ b æ l ə f ɒ n /, or, by analogy with xylophone etc., / ˈ b æ l ə f oʊ n /) is a gourd-resonated xylophone, a type of struck idiophone. [1] It is closely associated with the neighbouring Mandé, Bwaba Bobo, Senoufo and Gur peoples of West Africa, [1] [2] particularly the Guinean branch of the Mandinka ethnic group, [3] but is now found across West Africa from ...

  4. Neba Solo - Wikipedia

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    In his group's current form, Souleymane plays his specially adapted bass balafon while Siaka plays the upper-register "lead" form of the instrument. Neba Solo's music began to receive airplay on radio stations throughout his home region of Sikasso from the mid-1990s, particularly after the release of his recording "Hommage à Lamissa Bengaly."

  5. List of national instruments (music) - Wikipedia

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    marimba [38] Xylophone-like instrument with gourd resonators, two sets of overlapping keys, struck with mallets 111.222-4 Corsica: cetera ceterina, cetara A musical instrument of the cittern family, common in Corsica. 111.224-4 Crete: lyra [39] Three-stringed fretted, pear-shaped instrument with a hollow body and a vaulted back, propped up on ...

  6. Music of West Africa - Wikipedia

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    A balafon. The balafon is an instrument similar to the xylophone in Western countries. A member of the idiophone family of instruments, the balafon is used by many Griots and is commonly found in Brikama, a location of great cultural and musical depth. [25] Guinea's Susu and Mandinka peoples also regularly use the balafon in their traditional ...

  7. Music of Mali - Wikipedia

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    These are typically accompanied by a full dance band The common instruments of the Maninka jeli ensemble are; [4] kora (21-24 string lute-harp, classified by the manner of playing as well as the bridge structure) balafon (slat xylophone with small gourd resonators) n'goni (4-7 string lute)

  8. Portal:The Gambia/Featured article - Wikipedia

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  9. List of idiophones by Hornbostel–Sachs number - Wikipedia

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    111.211 Individual percussion sticks Dhantal; Triangle; 111.212 Sets of percussion sticks in a range of different pitches combined into one instrument. - All xylophones, as long as their sounding components are not in two different planes. Balafon; Gandingan a kayo; Glasschord; Glass Marimba; Kulintang a kayo; Luntang or kwintangan kayo; Marimba