Balafon (English Wikipedia)

"made from reeds and gourds, which are struck with sticks and make a pleasant sound".Gibb & Beckingham 1994, p. 959 Vol. 4 Gibb, H. A. R.; Beckingham, C .F., eds. (1994), The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325–1354 (Volume 4), London: Hakluyt Society, ISBN 978-0-904180-37-4
"called Ballards made to stand a foot above the ground, hollow under, and hath uppon the top some seventeene woodden keyes standing like the Organ, upon which hee that playes sitting upon the ground, just against the middle of the instrument, strikes witha sticke in either hand, about a foote long, at the end whereof is made fast a round ball, covered with some soft stuffe, to avoyd the clattering noyse the bare stickes would make".Jobson 1968, p. 135 Jobson, Richard (1968) [1623], The golden trade or A discovery of the river Gambra, and the golden trade of the Aethiopians, London: Dawsons of Pall Mall

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Jessup, Lynne (1983). The Mandinka Balafon: An Introduction with Notation for Teachesting. Art Path Press. ISBN 9780916421045.
Charry, Eric (October 2000). Mande Music: Traditional and Modern Music of the Maninka and Mandinka of Western Africa. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226101620.

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Harper, Colter (2008). "Life, Death, and Music in West Africa". Contexts Magazine. Winter: 44–51. doi:10.1525/ctx.2008.7.1.44. S2CID 59623412. Retrieved 2008-05-04.

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Gourlay, K.A.; Durán, Lucy (2001). "Balo". Grove Music. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.01914. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. Retrieved 2019-07-12.
McPherson, Laura (2018-06-18). "Musical surrogate languages in the documentation of complex tone: The case of the Sambla balafon". 6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018). ISCA. pp. 62–66. doi:10.21437/tal.2018-13. S2CID 52240848.
Strand, Julie Lynn (2009-05-01). The Sambla Xylophone: Tradition and Identity in Burkina Faso (PhD dissertation). Wesleyan University. doi:10.14418/wes01.3.3. OCLC 705087942.
Harper, Colter (2008). "Life, Death, and Music in West Africa". Contexts Magazine. Winter: 44–51. doi:10.1525/ctx.2008.7.1.44. S2CID 59623412. Retrieved 2008-05-04.

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"Preserving the Sosso Bala Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine", Jumbie Records: a charity record to raise funds for preserving this instrument.

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Faya Ismael Tolno (September 2011). "Les Recherches linguistiques de l'école N'ko" (PDF). Dalou Kende (in French). No. 19. Kanjamadi. p. 7. Retrieved 17 December 2020.

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Mali Ministry of Culture. Le Triangle du Balafon: Projet de Festival du Balafon, Troisieme Edition, Sikasso – 02 au 05 Novembre 2006, (2006). Archived March 4, 2012, at the Wayback Machine

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Gourlay, K.A.; Durán, Lucy (2001). "Balo". Grove Music. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.01914. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. Retrieved 2019-07-12.

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McPherson, Laura (2018-06-18). "Musical surrogate languages in the documentation of complex tone: The case of the Sambla balafon". 6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2018). ISCA. pp. 62–66. doi:10.21437/tal.2018-13. S2CID 52240848.
Harper, Colter (2008). "Life, Death, and Music in West Africa". Contexts Magazine. Winter: 44–51. doi:10.1525/ctx.2008.7.1.44. S2CID 59623412. Retrieved 2008-05-04.

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"The Cultural Space of 'Sosso-Bala' in Niagassola, Guinea", UNESCO.org.

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Network, Canadian Heritage Information. "The Balafon by N'Gafien, Age 16". www.virtualmuseum.ca. Archived from the original on 2017-06-30. Retrieved 2019-07-12.

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"Meet the Parisian Art Collective Reviving a Defunct West African Airline". 9 September 2022.

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Network, Canadian Heritage Information. "The Balafon by N'Gafien, Age 16". www.virtualmuseum.ca. Archived from the original on 2017-06-30. Retrieved 2019-07-12.
"Preserving the Sosso Bala Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine", Jumbie Records: a charity record to raise funds for preserving this instrument.
Mali Ministry of Culture. Le Triangle du Balafon: Projet de Festival du Balafon, Troisieme Edition, Sikasso – 02 au 05 Novembre 2006, (2006). Archived March 4, 2012, at the Wayback Machine

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Strand, Julie Lynn (2009-05-01). The Sambla Xylophone: Tradition and Identity in Burkina Faso (PhD dissertation). Wesleyan University. doi:10.14418/wes01.3.3. OCLC 705087942.

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Strand, Julie Lynn (2009-05-01). The Sambla Xylophone: Tradition and Identity in Burkina Faso (PhD dissertation). Wesleyan University. doi:10.14418/wes01.3.3. OCLC 705087942.

Balafon (English Wikipedia)

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