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you play the balafon by using the wooden sticks or using drum sticks with rubber ends :)
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How does a balafon work?
A Balafon is a wooden xylophone. The instrument is made from a bene wood and can be created as fixed-key or free that can produce 18-21notes.
What is a Balafon?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BalafonThe balafon, or bala is a West African percussion instrument from the idiophone family. Much like the glockenspiel, marimba and xylophone, the bala's sound is made when the musician strikes one or more pitched bars, using rubber-tipped mallets or plain wooden sticks; the bala, however, differs from the aforementioned instruments because it features a series of empty gourds that rests directly below the bars, thus amplifying the notes.Although the balafon is an indigenous production, prior to colonization, it was simply known as bala. In order to liken the bala to the xylophone, the instrument's name was anglicanized as balafon.
How is balafon played?
The Balafon is made from bars of wood that make a sound when they're struck.
What is a balaphone?
A balaphone is another term for a balafon - a wooden-keyed percussive instrument of West Africa, struck with two padded sticks.
What does the balafon sound like?
Like a glockenspiel (both are made of wood) but each note has a sort of echo provided by the gourd underneath. It's a really pleasant sound!
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