balafon

balafon is a mallet percussion instrument or set of percussion sticks.

Also recorded as balophong; balaphone; bala; balo; balas; balafo.

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Type of wooden xylophone originating in Mali.

It is associated with Mali and Burkina Faso.

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

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Wikidata, structured authority record Q789141: balafon
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