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Calabash Recorder

A recorder with a gourd, or calabash, resonator with three rectangular holes, and one in the base. The instrument consists of a cane stem with six hol...

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NWT712: Mende Song

Historical wax cylinder recording made by Northcote Whitridge Thomas, a British government anthropologist who conducted field research in Sierra Leone...

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