MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

OF AFRICA
-Major Instrumental
genres of Western music
include:
 STRINGS
 WINDS
 PERCUSSION
IDIOPHONES
-ARE PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS THAT
ARE EITHER STRUCK WITH A MALLET
OR AGAINST ONE ANOTHER.
1. BALAFON
-A WEST AFRICAN XYLOPHONE. IT IS A PITCHED PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT WITH BARS MADE FROM LOGS OR BAMBOO.
RATTLES
-are vessels made of seashells, tin, basketry,
animal hoofs, horn, wood, metal, cocoons, palm
kernels, or tortoise shells.
 AGOGO
-a single bell or multiple bells.
It has the highest pitch among the bateria
instruments.
ATINGTING KON -ARE SLIT GONGS USED AS COMMUNICATION BETWEEN VILLAGES. THEY WERE CARVED OUT OF WOOD TO
RESEMBLE ANCESTORS AND HAD A SLIT OPENING AT THE BOTTOM. THEIR SOUND COULD CARRY FOR MILES THROUGH THE
FOREST AND ACROSS WATER TO NEIGHBORING ISLANDS.
SLIT DRUM
-is a hollow percussion instrument. 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 2 and 3 slits
occur.
DJEMBE
-one of the best-known African drums. Shaped like
a large goblet and played with bare hands. Carved
from a hollowed trunk and is covered with goat
skin.
SHEKERE
-is atype of gourd and shell magaphone 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.
RASP
-OR SCRAPER IS A HAND PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT WHOSE SOUND IS PRODUCED BY SCRAPING
THE NOTCHES ON A PIECE OF WOOD WITH A STICK, CREATING A SERIES OF RATTLING EFFECTS .