Motherland Quality Balafons Knock on wood
If you want a natural and true organic sound like crystal clean water gurgling down a mountain stream then you will be mesmerized playing and feeling the sound of Motherland’s Bobo Mali balafon. Tuning scale is F major pentatonic starting with a low G, sometimes we have available other scales and tuning, feel free to call us about that. The wood for the keys is called goni (pterocarpus erinaceus) a quality West African musical instrument wood, the gourd resonators below each key amplify it’s sound. Two rubber tipped playing mallets are provided with each instrument.
The west African piano, the balafon or “bala, marimba, xylophone, gylie” consists of a number of wood or metal bars spaced evenly over a frame with a set of gourd resonators of varying sizes below each key that amplify the sound when the bars are struck with rubber mallets. Ranging in size from 5 to 21 keys and played alongside other instrumentation the balafon lends a very distinctive melodic sound. Three types usually available, from Mali, Guinea, and Ghana
