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Gan Gan
The gangan is a type of hourglass-shaped talking drum, indigenous to the Yoruba people of West Africa. It is often part of an ensemble that consists of other indigenous drums collectively referred to as dundun. Dundun is a Yoruba word that translates to ‘sweet sound’, the ensemble comprises iyaalu, isaaju, Kerikeri, gudugudu, and ikeyin, representing the various members that make up the family structure such as Iyaalu, the mother drum and lead drum of the ensemble but traditionally played by a man as with the other drums.
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Ekwe
Ekwe translates to ‘wooden gong’ in Igbo. The instrument is indigenous to the Igbo people of present-day South-East Nigeria where it is traditionally used to communicate between members of a community. It comes in different sizes but is generally cylinder-shaped with two rectangular holes cut at the top. It is played with two wooden beaters that strike on the top of the instrument using expert techniques to produce different sounds that send out signals to the general public or for entertainment
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Mbira
Mbira is a family of musical instruments indigenous to the Shona people of Zimbabwe .It is classified as a lamellaphone or plucked idiophone, this means that the sound produced by the instrument is generated from a thin vibrating plate attached at one end and free on the other. The mbira consists of several metal tines attached to a wooden board (gwariva) which often also has machachara (shells and caps that create a buzzing sound) attached, often placed in hollow gourds that act as a resonator and amplifies the sound generated.
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Kundung
The Kundung is a cow horn resonated xylophone that is attributed to the Berom people of North Central Nigeria. They did, however, obtain the gourd-resonated version that preceded it from the Bagrimi people of Chad, who came to Nigeria after the Second World War to work in the Jos tin mines. It is made up of a series of 10-20 wooden bars with horn resonators put beneath them. It is hung from the neck with a thick strap and played by one player or two with two little wooden mallets.
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Djembe Drum
The Djembe is a talking drum indigenous to the Mandinka people of West Africa. It is goblet-shaped and has a body carved from a single piece of wood with a drum head of rawhide. It is believed that the first Djembes were created by a class of hereditary blacksmiths known as ‘numu’ but other than gender (only males may play),there is no traditional restriction on who may be Djembefola. Depending on how you strike the drum and what part of the drum head you strike different pitches can be produced.
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Chocalho
The Olusangu is native to the Ovimbundu people of Angola. It is a rattle made from small gourd-like shells filled with seeds. As an instrument, the shells are often tied to the legs when dancing, but as a charm, it is carried around by a woman who has had triplets, she uses it to offer greetings to those she meets to protect her children from death. The Ovimbundu or Umbundu-speaking people are the largest ethnic group in Angola.
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Shekere
This musical instrument originates from Yoruba land in West Africa but during the transatlantic slave trade, it was transported by the slaves to their destinations and these days the instrument can be found in the Americas and Caribbean. It is made of a dried and hollowed-out gourd, covered with a loose net of beads/cowries/seeds which give the Shekere its characteristic sound while adding colour and expression to the instrument. The instrument is held by the neck and the bottom,can be shaken or beaten against the palm when playing it.
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Garaya
Indigenous to the Hausa people of Southern Niger and Northern Nigeria. The generic name used to describe a two-string plucked lute, mostly occurring in two main sizes; the Garaya, which is the smallest, and a babbar Garaya, the larger one. They are made of a carved oval wooden body resonator covered in animal skin and a long neck with strings attached covered in animal skin, played by strumming with a diamond-shaped pick of stiff cowhide. A long ringed metal jingle is inserted into the top end of the neck.
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Kundi
The Kundi is a 5-string harp indigenous to the Azande people of the present-day Democratic Republic of Congo. It is made up of a resonator consisting of a piece of hollowed-out piece of wood carved in the shape of a hexagonal bowl with a central rib; and an animal hide cover across the opening. The 5 strings are tied to the resonator and a curved or angular wooden neck with tuning pegs, held vertically and horizontally with the neck against the body and the strings are plucked with both hands.
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Adungu
The Adungu is native to the Alur people of North Western Uganda and the North Eeastern Democratic Republic of Congo. It’s a 7-10 string harp with a long, curved neck, similar to the Kundi of the Azande but with distinct characteristics. The instrument consists of a rectangular-shaped bowl resonator covered with two pieces of rawhide. They are sewn together tightly, one serving as the sound table from which the strings are attached. The instrument is held securely on the ground, between the legs and thighs when it is played.
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Ufele
Ufele
The Igala wooden flute referred to as the Ufele among the Igala speaking people of North Central, Nigeria, is as old as the Igala people. It is believed that the Igala people imported the Ufele flute and it’s just more than a musical instrument, and believed to carry life as well an instrument of invocation of spirits and mediums. The Ufele is a a tool for praise singing and intoxication of KIngs, warriors and there prominent society.
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Oja
The oja is of Igbo origin, specially carved wooden flute used by the Igbo people of Southern Nigeria for religious, social, and recreational functions. It can serve as music to accompany events, dances, or work, or sound effects to accompany rituals and worship. The flute is created by a carver who has to ensure that it is capable of producing sound but the quality of the sound is dependent on the flautist as he is responsible for treating it with water and palm oil for the desired sound qualities.
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Luba Drum
A native to the Kuba people located in the present-day Democratic Republic of Congo.
The single-headed drum is associated with royalty, part of specially-made regalia. According to The Royal Museum of Central Africa (RMCA), the drum is rarely beaten except at the start of royal dances and on the day of the new moon. As a rule,each king has a drum made for his reign, the drums are kept at the palace and bear the name of its owner and during ceremonies, it is placed next to the wisdom basket.
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Bata (Omole)
A musical genre indigenous to the Egungun group of the West African Yoruba tribe. Comprises a set of drums(iyaalu, omele ako and omele abo), traditionally used in spiritual (orisa worship) and social settings. Omele is the child drum in the family representation of the bata ensemble, could be the female child (omele abo) or the male child (omele ako). Omele abo is a two-headed conical drum with a smaller end (sasa) and a bigger end (oju ojo), slung across the body and played with two beaters (bilala) in each hand.
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Endingidi
This instrument is attributed to the Basoga and Baganda people of the East African country of Uganda.It’s a tube fiddle consisting of a cylindrical wooden resonator (mulugwa), covered with animal hide, a single string is attached from the resonator to a tuning peg at the top of the long wooden neck. It is held against the side of a player’s body with one hand adjusting the tension on the string and the other hand playing with a bow traditionally made from sisal fibre but now commonly made from nylon fibres.
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Bata(Iyaalu)
Native to the Yoruba people of West Africa, Iyaalu is derived from the words ‘iya’, meaning ‘mother’ and ‘ilu’, meaning ‘drum’.Iyaalu bata is a double-headed wooden drum shaped like a truncated cone, has two animal skin drumheads; the smaller drum head called sasa and the bigger is oju ojo. Tiny brass bells called saworo are attached to the rim of the bigger drum head. It is held across the player's body with a shoulder strap and played by striking the sasa with a beater, the oju ojo with bare hands.
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Nyatiti
A native to Western Kenya, Eastern Uganda and Northern Tanzania Luo people, an eight-stringed lyre made up of a bowl-shaped carved wooden sound board covered with rawhide, typically cow skin because the instrument is considered female.Strings are symbolic of the first 4 days after a male’s birth (lower strings), the first 4 days after a male’s death (upper strings), played traditionally by men in a low sitting position who often wear a metal ring on their big toe and a set of bells attached to the leg to provide beat.
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Kora
This instrument is indigenous to the Mande people of West Africa, a single ethnic group with several sub-groups across many countries in West Africa
The kora is a 21-string double-bridge-harp-lute with a long neck and hemispheric gourd resonator covered in antelope of cow rawhide. It is played by a caste of artists known as ‘Jeli’ who may stand, sit on a chair, or sit cross-legged on the floor when playing the instrument. Object is held up vertically, tuned, and plucked to create a sound similar to a harp.
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