For Monique Derksen I checked her Guinean balafoon. She bought it at the time via Arafan Touré. A beautiful instrument! It is a so-called equi-heptatonic balafon. In this tuning the octave is divided into 7 equal pieces. The tones do not therefore come to the...
In this blog item I am going to make a report of a complete refurbishing of a balafon for Lisa. She is an Irish friend who has recently discovered the passion for the balafon. She is another friend of Debbie, who I met at the...
A balafon player from Nordhorn (Germany) gave me her balafon whose rope was broken. According to my teacher Youssouf Keita he is built by his brother Seydou from Ivory Coast. It concerns a specimen with a so-called 'hanging mat of sound bars'. If the rope...
Jan (participant in Tuka-Tuka workshop recently) asked me if it was a good idea to renovate an old balafon, which he had received from his neighbor, into a useful instrument. We have arranged at my home; he would bring the balafon. When he arrived, he...
For one of my students in the Betuwe class I have taken a good care of her balafon. A support beam had been broken in the frame. In addition, there were many noises and some gourds were actually too long and hit the ground and...