Status: concept packet
**Instrument:** Ngoni (Kamele N'goni) — West African plucked-lute **Family:** Mande bowl-lute (strings + skin resonator) **Variants:** Donso 6-string · Kamele 10-string · Kamele 14-string **Scale:** Pentatonic D–F–G–A–C (repeating across octaves) **Construction:** Segmented lathe-turned bowl · goatskin head · maple neck · nylon strings **Design Stage:** Packet-ready (CAD/prototype pending) **Author:** Tony Koop — Heifer Zephyr Instrument Works **Date:** 2026-05-08
Live interactive acoustic model (Wolfram Cloud, Public-Execute). Drag the sliders; every value is computed from estimate placeholders — pending measurement, not fabrication authority.
Concept renders pending. Prompt set in docs/image-gen-prompt.md; render into images/ (hero-render.png, macro/, etc.) via the image pipeline.