The balafon is an pitched idiophone found throughout West Africa, also knows as the bala, and similar to the marimba of Zimbabwe, and the xylophone. DjembeDirect.com has two distinct versions and many sizes in stock ready for shipment. The Mali and Guinea balas are professional grade, with Haré wood keys tuned to accurate diatonic scales in C, D, and F, and with buzzing gourd resonators. The Ghana xylophones are tuned low to high with pentatonic pockets, resonator gourds, and raked frame.
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This balafon (BA-la-fone), also known as a bala, or balaphone, is built and tuned to serve as a legitimate high-end, professional instrument, imported from Guinea and Mali. Each instrumen...
Our unique 6 Key Xylophone from Ghana is the perfect starter mallet instrument for children to learn on. It is small and portable, lightweight and easy to use in at home or at school, and...
This 8 Key Xylophone from Ghana is great as a percussion instrument for children that allows freedom to explore and create. Handcrafted in Ghana in the traditional style of northern Ghana...
This 10 blade xylophone is handcrafted in Ghana in the traditional style of northern Ghana and Burkina Faso. The sound produced when struck with the recycled tire-rubber mallet is very ea...
The 12 blade xylophone adds 2 notes lower than the 10 key, giving it more low end and more volume thanks to bigger gourds. Made in Ghana, it is crafted in the traditional style of Burkina...
The size and sound of the 14 Key Xylophone is always impressive. The large gourds below the lower notes make for big sound and with extra long decay. The frame is built very sturdy, great...
Balafon enthusiasts, teachers, and students will find a great deal of useful information in this book, which offers very technical and academic information, as well as accessible tunes wh...
Our professional balafon mallet is hand crafted in Cote d'Ivoire in the old tradition using extracted natural gum, wound tightly in thin bands around the end of a mango wood stick. The pr...
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