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The nyonganyonga is the instrument I chose to write about on my visit to the Metropolitan Museum. The nyonganyonga is a lamellaphone instrument consisting of thin metal or split cane tongues mounted on a resonating board or box. Board-mounted lamellaphones are often played inside gourds or bowls for increased resonance, and the timbre may be modified by attaching rattling devices to the board or resonator or by attaching metal cuffs at the base of the tongues. The lamellaphone is often classified as a plucked idiophone that means an instrument whose sounding parts are resonant solids. However, this term is not accurate, because the tongues are not plucked but rather depressed and released with the thumbs and fingers. The lamellaphone is commonly played as an accompaniment to a song, but in some areas it is used for purely instrumental music.
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