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Musical Instruments in the South Kensington Museum: Kasso, from Senegambia (negro), 1870. Creator: Unknown.

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Musical Instruments in the South Kensington Museum: Kasso, from Senegambia (negro), 1870. 'Mr. Carl Engel observes that the first and simplest African harp was that very common weapon of warfare or the chase, the bow - an elastic stick bent by a string. The Damaras, for instance, are accustomed often, in idle times, to use their bows as a musical instrument, tying a leather thong across the bow-string, not quite in its middle, so as to divide its length into two unequal parts, which yield two different sounds. The addition of a hollow gourd for a soundboard will make a guitar. The kasso of Senegambia, with its strings made of the tough fibres of a creeping-plant, is another example of this kind'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM24A49_309

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Non

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Droits gérés

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38,8Mo (1,1Mo) / 23,2cm x 42,0cm / 2738 x 4959 (300dpi)

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Africa music arts art continent British museum African location collection century musical instrument musical instruments Britain newspapers press print artefact artifact B&W gourd stringed instrument engraved engraving 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News South Kensington Museum West African wood engraving ILN newspaper object Unknown calabash gourd 19th-century The Illustrated London News kora kasso