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MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF AFRICA

African music incorporates all the major instrumental genre of Western music, including
strings,winds,and percussion,along with a tremendous variety African musical instruments for
solo or ensemble playing

CLASSIFICATION OF TRADITIONAL AFRICAN INSTRUMENTS

A.IDIOPHONES
Idiophones are instruments that create sound through vibrating themselves.They differ from
chordophones and membranophones because the vibrating is not the result of strings or
membranes. Under the Hornbostel-Sachs classifcation system, idiophones are further divided
into struck idiophones and plucked idiophones

1.BALAFON
● balaton is a West African xylophone.It is a pitched percussion instrument with bars made
from logs or bamboo.
● The xylophone is originally an Asian instrument that follows the structure of a piano.
From Asia, it went to Africa then to the Americas and Europe
2.RATTLES
● Rattles are vessels made of seashells,tin basketry,animal hoofs,
horn,wood,metal,cocoons. palm kemels,or tortoise shells.These may range from single
to several objects that are either joined or suspended to create sound as they hit each
other.
3.AGOGO
● The agogo is a single bell or
multiple bells that had its origins in traditional Yoruba music as well as in the samba
bateria (percussion) ensembles. The agogo may be called "the oldest samba instrument
based on West African Yoruba single or double bells." It has the highest pitch among the
bateria instruments.
4.ATINGTING KON
● The atingting kon are slit gongs used as communication between villages. Traditionally,
they were carved out of wood to resemble ancestors and had a slit opening at the
bottom. In certain cases, their sound could carry for miles through the forest and across
water to neighboring islands. Gong "languages," composed of a series of beats and
pauses, made it possible to send highly specific messages.
5.SLIT DRUM
● The slit drum is a hollow percussion instrument. Although referred to as a drum, it is
more of an idiophone.
● It is usually carved or constructed from bamboo or wood into a box with one or more slits
in the top. Most slit drums have one slit, though two and three slits (cut into the shape of
an "H") occur. If the resultant tongues are different in width or thickness, the drum can
produce two different pitches.
6.DJEMBE
● The West African djembe (pronounced zhem-bay) is one of the best-known African
drums. It is shaped like a large goblet and played with bare hands. The body is carved
from a hollowed trunk and is covered with goat skin.
● Log drums come in different shapes and sizes as well as tubular drums, bowl-shaped
drums, and friction drums. Some have one head while others have two.The bigger the
drum, the lower the tone or pitch.The more tension in the drum head, the higher the tone
produced. These drums are played using hands or sticks or both, while being held under
the armpit or with a sling. They sometimes have rattling metal jingles attached to the
outside, or seeds and beads placed inside the drum.
7.SHEKERE
● The shekere is a type of gourd and shell megaphone from West Africa, consisting of a
dried gourd with beads woven into a net covering the gourd.The agbe is another dried
gourd with cowrie shells or beads usually strung with white cotton thread. The axatse is
a small gourd, held by the neck and placed between hand and leg.
8.RASP
● A rasp, or scraper, is a hand percussion instrument whose sound is produced by
scraping the notches on a piece of wood (sometimes elaborately carved) with a stick,
creating a series of rattling effects

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