of the name, it is not a true drum but an idiophone, usually carved or constructed - is an African musical instrument consisting from bamboo or wood into a box with one of a wooden board (often fitted with a or more slits in the top. Most slit resonator) with attached staggered metal drums have one slit, though two and tines, played by holding the instrument in three slits (cut into the shape of an "H") the hands and plucking the tines with the occur. thumbs. The mbira is usually classified as musical bow part of the lamellaphone family, and part of the idiophone family of musical instruments.
african harp
- is a simple string musical instrument
part of a number of South African cultures, also found in other places in the world through the result of slave trade.
- It is an instrument traditionally played by
lamellophone young men and boys. A similar type of harp played by the Nzakara people. The instruments are well known for their ornately carved heads. The instrument has generally fallen from popularity, though in 1993 some older players were recorded on the album Music from the Bandia Courts.
- A lamellophone (also lamellaphone
or linguaphone, from the Latin root slit drum lingua meaning "tongue", i.e., a long thin plate that is fixed only at one end) is any of a family of musical instruments. other materials, causing a different sound to be heard. rock gong
kontigi
- A rock gong is a lithophone. Found in
Africa, Asia, and Europe, the gong is a slab of rock that is hit like a drum. .These names are all onomatopic, except for "kuge" which is the Hausa word for a - A kontigi or kuntigi is a one- or two- double iron bell and "dawal" which is the stringed lute used in Hausa music, used Ge`ez word for a church's stone gong. primarily in northern Nigeria and Niger, but also used in Hausa minorities in Benin, adungu Ghana, Burkina Faso and Cameroon.
zeze
- The zeze is a stringed instrument from
Sub-Saharan Africa. It is also known by the names tzetze and dzendze, and on - The adungu, also called the ekidongo or Madagascar is called lokangavoatavo or ennenga, is a stringed musical instrument lokangovoatavo. It has one or two strings, of the Alur people of northwestern made of steel or bicycle brake wire. Uganda. It is an arched harp of varying dimensions, ranging from seven to ten African fiddle strings or more.
erikundi
- The term African fiddle may be applied to
any of several African bowed string instruments. - The erikundi is a percussive instrument that is shaken much like a maraca. Unlike the maraca, however, it is made from Musical instruments of Latin Africa