REBAB BALINAIS

REBAB BALINAIS

REBAB BALINAIS Vièle à archet originaire du Moyen Orient, jouée dans l’orchestre Gamelan, balinais ou javanais, dans lequel il ornemente la mélodie principale. Fabriqué jusqu’au siècle dernier à partir d’une noix de coco artificiellement déformée et sculptée, le rebab...
BAMILEKE FLUTE

BAMILEKE FLUTE

BAMILEKE FLUTE Comparable to the Mossi models, these hunting flutes come from the Bamiléké country, on the high volcanic plateaus west of Cameroon. Read...
MOSSI FLUTE

MOSSI FLUTE

MOSSI FLUTE Burkina Faso, before 1958. Monoxyl flute representing a stylized warthog head. Butkina Fasso. Provenance: Agence Française des Colonies Read...
SIMSIMYYA

SIMSIMYYA

SIMSIMYYA Harp-lyre whose use is common to Egypt and Sudan. Traces of it can be found on the other side of the Red Sea along the Arabian Peninsula. This five-string model, more “harp” than “lyre”, seems atypical with its “arm”...
N’GONI

N’GONI

N’GONI MID 20th century. Small model made from a tin can, (probably herring-pilchards) on which is fixed a skin stretched by vegetable fibers. The handle is finished with a metal cowbell. Illegible traces of writing on the skin. Length without cowbell: 32.5cm. Total...