Balafon
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The balafon is a gourd-resonated xylophone, a type of struck idiophone. It is closely associated with the neighbouring Mandé, Bwaba Bobo, Senoufo and Gur peoples of West Africa, particularly the Guine
A fixed-key balafon, showing resonators with membrane holes
Children from Burkina Faso performing in Warsaw, Poland, during the 5th Cross Culture Festival, September 2009
Gum-rubber mallets on a balafon
Djembe and balafon, Guinea
Djembe
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A djembe or jembe is a rope-tuned, skin-covered goblet drum played with bare hands from the Sabar family, originally from Senegal that is widely used in West Africa. According to the Bambara people in
Lenke wood djembe from Mali
Les Ballets Africains in Bonn, Germany, 1962
Djembefola DVD cover
Spectrum analysis of a bass. The big hump is the Helmholtz resonance.