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	Balafon - an Instrument Used for Masabo
		The fixed-key balafons are generally mounted on or suspended from a frame, with or without calabash resonators.
		One or two of the keys of the balafon are sometimes struck rhythmically with the handle of the beater or with wooden sticks.
		The reason for the existence of this type of balafons is that balafons are often sacred instruments and cannot therefore be taken freely from the storehouse where they are kept.
	www.masabo.com /balafon.html (959 words)

	Balafon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The balafon is a pentatonic or heptatonic resonated frame xylophone of West Africa.
		The keys are cut from béné wood and suspended on a wooden frame, over calabash gourd resonators of graduated sizes resulting in a continuous nasal buzzing sound due to a small hole in each gourd covered with a membrane made of a paper thin spider's egg case.
		Balafons are played sitting down,or by attaching a strap to the frame, they can be played while standing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Balafon (191 words)

	Balafon West African Dance Ensemble is electrigying the contemporary African dance scene!
		Officially forming in 1997, Balafon is a creative partnership among several artists who masterfully blend the natural elegance of traditional West African dance and culture with an amazing heroic athleticism.
		Balafon West African Dance Ensemble, incorporated in 2001, is a non-profit 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization.
		The mission of Balafon West African Dance Ensemble, Inc. is to provide an insightful, woman-centered perspective on West African tradition and culture as a source of healing and balance by providing quality education and entertainment to audiences of all nationalities and walks of life.
	www.angelfire.com /on/balafon/html/history/index.html (342 words)

	Gert Kilian - Percussion Unlimited: The Balafon
		The culture of balafon music is highly developed in the countries south of the Sahara desert (Sahel zone) and the tropical rain forest.
		The balafon consists of wooden mallets and calabashes - hollow pumpkins - serving as resonance-boxes.
		Normally, the balafon is tuned from the lowest to the highest note, usually in a pentatonic chord (five tones), like, for example, the fl mallets on a piano keyboard.
	www.gert-kilian.com /en/indexoldfr.html (333 words)

	bala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		An additional feature of the Mande balafon is that two small holes are generally pierced in the resonating gourds and they are covered with a thin spider's egg case or cigarette paper, thereby producing a buzzing mirliton effect, that embellishes the sound of the keys.
		On the basis of her study of Mandinka (the Mandinka are the western-most branch of the Mande family) balafons in The Gambia, (Mandinka Balafon, p.
		He is accompanied by skilled musicians on second balafon, bolon (a large, four-stringed lute), sokko (a four- stringed violin), buru (a lateral flute) and tunni (a flute with two tubes and a gourd resonator).
	tcd.freehosting.net /djembemande/bala.html (1950 words)

	THE BALAFON - idiophone
		The balafon is an African musical instrument made of bars of wood that produce notes when they are struck.
		The French word "balafon" is actually incorrect because it refers to the activity of playing the instrument rather than the instrument itself.
		The balafon has three parts: the wood bars that produce the notes, the trapezoid frame on which the bars are mounted and the gourds that provide the sound system.
	www.virtualmuseum.ca /Exhibitions/Instruments/Anglais/dpbf_j_txt03a_en.html (324 words)

	AFRICAN BALAFONS
		The Balafon, also known as "Marimba," xylophone or "Gyile" in Dagarti are from the North West of Ghana.
		Balafon provide both melody and rhythm and are used at celebrations and festivals.
		The keys of the balafon are made from the male Shea Butter tree.
	www.african-drums.com /african_balafons.htm (234 words)

	Mali Music - Neba Solo Balafon
		Le talentueux balafoniste a en tout cas, gagné son pari d'accorder le balafon avec d'autres instruments modernes et traditionnels.
		He spent his childhood on the rhythm of long and difficult days in fields and night of balafon, his father was a virtuoso of this instrument.
		His way of playing is astonishing, he's so rapid that we have the impression that the balafon is playing alone.
	mali-music.com /Cat/CatN/NebaSolo.htm (1838 words)

	Balafon history
		Tales of the origin of the balafon a tribute its invention to Sumanguru, the king of Sosso (Sunjata's rival), and to Sunjata.
		The Origin of the Balafon, as told by Bamba Suso Jimmo Duwa was the man who got the balafon from a jinn in the bush, in a valley.
		He associated his beating with the sound he heard the jinn playing on the balafon, but his balafon's sound was not regulated (tuned) because he didn't know anything about it.
	www.rhythmatters.com /instruments/bala_history.html (1065 words)

	THE BALAFON - Idiophones
		Balafons are found only on the African continent where they developed without outside influence.
		The balafon is an ancient fetish instrument that was mainly used by African warriors.
		Balafons are usually played during celebrations by professionals rarely by amateurs.
	www.virtualmuseum.ca /Exhibitions/Instruments/Anglais/mcc_j_txt08a_en.html (104 words)

	MOTU.com - Africa-Balafon-Kora (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A brief example that showcases two traditional African instruments: the balafon and the kora.
		The balafon is a melodic, percussive instrument, similar to a xylophone, made from wooden keys positioned over gourd resonators.
		The kora, a stringed instrument with a particularly vibrant sound akin to a harp combined with a lute, is considered to be one of the most melodic instruments in Africa.
	www.motu.com /products/software/ethno/media/examples/track03.html (63 words)

	The Balafon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Thus, Bala Fasseke became the guardian of Soumoworo Kante's balafon.
		The balafon became a priviledged instrument in all important ceremonies.
		Today, after more than 800 years, the original balafon is kept virtually intact in the village of Niagassola in the north of Guinea.
	nabycamara.com /balafon.html (181 words)

	Kennedy Center: Millennium Stage Artist Details: Balafon West African Dance Ensemble
		Kadiatou Conte is currently the artistic director of the Balafon West African Dance Ensemble, Inc., which is composed of many of her students and colleagues from her years with the National Ballet of Guinea.
		Nicole was one of the founding members of Balafon West African Dance Ensemble and she experienced tremendous personal and artistic growth with Kadiatou.
		Balafon West African Dance Ensemble blends traditional West African dance and culture with heroic athleticism.
	www.kennedy-center.org /programs/millennium/artist_detail.cfm?artist_id=BALAFONAFR (1017 words)

	ngoni (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		They play Senoufo and Djola rhythms and their balafons are pentatonic as opposed to the heptatonic balafons of the jelis.
		This is a recording of the balafon music of the Balanta people of Senegal who use a large balafon called "kadji" that is played by two musicians who sit side by side.
		Sidiqui Jajo (kora and vocals) Mori Jobarteh (balafon) and Kalifa Kamara (balafon) emigrated to the Ivory Coast, hence their name, "The Ivorys"; this is, however, a recording of classic Malian jeli balafon and kora music.
	tcd.freehosting.net /djembemande/ngoni.html (1699 words)

	Newport News-Times: Aquarium to host Balafon Marimba Ensemble
		This will be one of the final performances for Balafon, a popular Portland-based marimba ensemble.
		The infectious blend of African, Latin, and Caribbean music of Balafon comes to life on a sea of marimbas and percussion instruments as members leap from marimba to marimba in their trademark dynamic performance.
		The high energy music of Balafon has been inspiring audiences to get on their feet for over 19 years.
	www.newportnewstimes.com /articles/2006/06/07/community/community20.txt (449 words)

	Gert Kilian - Percussion Unlimited: balafon beat
		This book consists of three complementary parts: the compositions for mallet player(s) and percussion ensemble, a chapter with preparatory exercises for balafon (marimba, Xylophone, vibes) and a method for a deeper understanding of rhythm by practising "body percussion", completed by a feature about the balafon.
		The balafon part can be replaced in all the five pieces by marimba or xylophone.
		Le balafon peut être remplacé par le marimba ou le xylophone dans les cinq morceaux.
	www.gert-kilian.com /bb/index.html (668 words)

	Balafon - Wikipédia
		Cependant, certains balafons en comportent beaucoup moins (16, 12, 8 voire même 6 ou 7).
		Un orchestre est souvent composé de trois balafons, un grave, un médium et un aigu accompagnés de tambours verticaux et de tambour d'aisselle.
		Bala est le "balafon" avec les grosses calebasses, et des lames larges (régions de Kolokani et Bobo Dioulasso entre autres), aux sons graves.
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Balafon (390 words)

	Balafon Marimba Ensemble, MP3 Music Download at eMusic
		The Balafon Marimba Ensemble was formed in 1981 during a class at Oregon State University.
		In 1989, The Balafon Marimba Ensemble became more serious about their career, hired a manager and sought a record label.
		Although the members of the Balafon Marimba Ensemble work in a variety of outside occupations-everything from managing a sporting goods store to baking for a vegetarian restaurant -- they remain as committed to their music as ever.
	www.emusic.com /artist/10564/10564554.html (388 words)

	"The Genius of the <i>Balafon</i>" - Harvard Magazine ...
		Earlier, speaking in French with Monson translating, Solo explained about balafons to 35 students, music professors, and the merely curious at a lecture-demonstration in Loker Commons that was sponsored by the Office for the Arts’ Learning from Performers series.
		The balafon has many musical cousins around the world—the concert xylophone, the glockenspiel, the vibes played by such jazzmen as Lionel Hampton and Gary Burton, Latin America’s marimba, Indonesia’s gamelan orchestra—instruments both percussive and melodic.
		Traditionally the balafon is played at all sorts of social events: festivals, dances, funerals, weddings, and naming ceremonies.
	www.harvardmagazine.com /on-line/010697.html (734 words)

	Balafon music from Guinea, West Africa to be featured at Arts in the Parks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Balafon music from Guinea, West Africa to be featured at Arts in the Parks
		Legend says the first Balafon was created over eight centuries ago after Soumaworo Kante, the leader of the Sosso Kingdon in Guinea, West Africa, met with spirits who showed him the instrument.
		Naby Camara first encountered the balafon, a 5-octave concert marimba, when he was three.
	www.ci.redmond.wa.us /redmond/web1/pr_903.asp (382 words)

	Mali from Timbuktu to Washington >> Performers
		—Neba Solo is an international celebrity, the Lionel Hampton of the balafon and a rising star.
		His group consists of balafons, baradunu, kerenyié (a metal scraper) and inexhaustible dancers.
		She can proudly claim to be the only woman to actually dance on the balafon.
	www.folklife.si.edu /resources/Festival2003/mali_performer.htm (281 words)

	Balafon Musical Instrument
		TRAVELING NORTHWARD IN GHANA, one passes successively through the open coastal region, the tropical rain forest of Ashanti, the slightly sparser landscape of Brong Ahafo, and finally the much drier savanna of the Northern and Upper regions.
		The music made by them is extremely diverse in regard to its form, its instrumentation and vocal techniques; the uses to which it is put and the meaning that it has for its performers.
		The balafon is present in almost all of fl Africa, and exists in various models, depending upon the area.
	www.portalmarket.com /balafon.html (303 words)

	Compound Sounds - Instrument Making in The Gambia
		The balafon is a wooden xylophone native to West Africa.
		The Manding oral history relates that the balafon was first introduced into griot tradition during the 13th century.At that time Diali Balafasege Kouyate was in service to Soumangourou Kante,a mighty warrior king.
		To Kante, the balafon and its music provided a powerful spiritual force and since that time the balafon has been incorporated into the musical tradition of the griots and also serves as a vehicle for recording historical accounts of Manding culture through music and verse.
	www.compoundsounds.com /making/index.html (444 words)

	Mory Kanté: Tour dates - recent
		The Independent, UK ‘Mory Kanté’s band have been thoroughly road-tested, and their seamless, superbly performed set drew largely on his spectacular acoustic album, Sabou, along with reworkings of a handful of his Afropop hits from the Eighties.
		Kanté’s kora and a pair of balafons sharing trickling, meshing patterns at the centre of the songs.
		Kante’s waterfall of percussion, swirled towards the high-pitched harmonies of his backing vocalists, found counterpoints in poignant wooden flute and the balafon’s enchanted plinking.
	www.morykante.com /tour/recent.html (783 words)

	Mandinka Balafon Music
		The mandinka balafon is of particular interest to me. I recently completed building my own instrument, basing my work on measurements taken from an instrument owned by the University of Oregon, as well as photographs and diagrams made by Karen Scholler.
		What first attracted me to the balafon was the tuning of the instrument.
		In Lynne Jessup's book The Mandinka Balafon: An Introduction with Notation for Teaching, she describes the equidistant heptatonic scale, or what Hugh Tracey, in reference to the timbila of Mozambique, calls the minor whole-tone scale.
	www.efn.org /~qehn/global/africa/balafon.htm (120 words)

	Balafon Marimba Ensemble : Balafon Marimba Ensemble - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Sixteen talented hands and a whole-body approach to the rhythms of Zimbabwe make The Balafon Marimba Ensemble a wonderfully unique and totally delightful recording.
		The five women and three men of Balafon really "work out" on their instruments, each player focussed on their particular portion of the whole composition, and the intricate cross-rhythms mix together so well that irresistible is one label that definitely works.
		Two compositions by Thomas Mapfumo stand out in their concern with everyday life, loves and the struggles inherent in the striving for liberation.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,47611,00.html (249 words)

	Virtual Instrument Museum
		"Balafon" is a generic term often used for any kind of frame xylophone (wherein the slats are tied to a bamboo frame) in western Africa.
		Bala fo literally means to "to play the bala" in the Maninka language.
		Perhaps by a convergence with the English "phone" (sound or voice) the term balafon came into widespread usage.
	learningobjects.wesleyan.edu /vim/cgi-bin/instrument.cgi?id=20 (105 words)

	Balafon In the News
		Danielle Ingram from Balafon Yoga was interviewed and photographed for the April 2005 issue of INBurlington Magazine in an article entitled; "No Child Left on the Bench"
		Yoga, one of the hottest adult fitness options, is catching on with the younger set.
		Danielle Ingram, owner of Balafon Yoga, believes yoga is wonderful for kids who have minimal or negative experiences with physical activity.
	www.balafonyoga.com /news.htm (113 words)

	Music of Guinea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Popular instruments the ngoni, a distant relative of the banjo, and the balafon.
		The Susu people are closely associated with the xylophone-like balafon.
		Famous balafon players include El Hadj Djeli Sory Kouyaté and, early in his career, superstar Mory Kanté.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Guinea (457 words)

	Numujeli: African Rhythms, Djembe, Balafon, Dunun, Krrin
		You can also learn about, see, and purchase a variety of musical instruments, including custom made drums and balafons of unsurpassed quality.
		There is a calendar of events to inform you of trips to Africa, domestic drum and dance camps, and classes and events in the Bay Area.
		Soon we hope to add resources for drum (djembe, doundoun) and balafon students.
	www.rhythmatters.com (352 words)

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