Balo
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Name (Latin)
Balo
Other forms of name
Bala
Balafo
Balafon
Balafou
Balaphon
See Also From tracing topical name
Musical instruments Africa, French-speaking West
Xylophone
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q789141
Library of congress:
sh 85011346
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: Jessup, L. The Mandinka balafon, 1984.
- New Grove(Balo; bala, balafou, balafon; a gourd-resonated frame xylophone of the Mandinka/Malinke peoples of Gambia, Senegal, Mali, and Upper Volta)
- Marcuse(balafo; balafon see balafo)
- Web. 3(Balaphon)
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Balafon (Aly Keita) Unterfahrt 2010-03-11-001
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Jamie Price, CC BY 2.0
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Kotoviski photograph by Henryk Kotowski, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Redmedea at Dutch Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Dr clave, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Wikipedia description:
The balafon (pronounced , or, by analogy with xylophone etc., ) 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 Guinean branch of the Mandinka ethnic group, but is now found across West Africa from Guinea, Burkina Faso, Mali. Its common name, balafon, is likely a European coinage combining its Mandinka name ߓߟߊ bala ([bala]) with the word ߝߐ߲ fôn ([fôŋ]) 'to speak' or the Greek root phono.
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