EditorialNatives of the Kingdom of Kongo (Congo) playing various musical instruments and dancing. A gourd-resonated xylophone marimba, a drum ngamba, double bell longa, and two percussion scrapers, kasuto and kilondo. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Anton...
EditorialMarimba or Zulu harmonicon of South Africa. It has ten bars, each with a gourd resonator, and is played with drumsticks. Chromolithograph from an illustration by William Gibb from A.J. Hipkins' "Musical Instruments, Historic, Rare and Unique," Adam and...