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UNBELIEVABLE: Dust has settled on my xylophone mystery - The Untold Story

Nadine Dorries
A person plays the balafon in Yaounde, Cameroon in April 19, 2023.
Eyke Shannon realised the instrument he has owned for 50 years is called a balafon, a west African instrument. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

I was thrilled to read the article on the obscure instruments played by musicians (‘When it hits a low C, it takes you to another dimension’: the musicians in love with obscure instruments, 18 August). I have owned a balafon for about 50 years and didn’t know what it was called. I have shown it to musician friends, who regarded it as just another wooden xylophone. Well, I shall certainly buy When the Dust Settles by Balimaya Project now. Anyone need a balafon?
Eyke Shannon
Westleton, Suffolk

• Your report on Nadine Dorries’ failure to quit as an MP (20 August) states that “more than half of people believe her absence as an MP and failure to quit has significantly damaged parliament’s reputation”. Was she not more of an embarrassment when she did show up?
Graeme Innes-Johnstone
Elland, West Yorkshire

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