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Alghaita

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has similar sound to oboe, double reed wind instrument, West-central Africa

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Kora

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version of a harp lute- West Africa

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Alghaita

has similar sound to oboe, double reed wind instrument, West-central Africa

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Kora

version of a harp lute- West Africa

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Kakaki

trumpet made from wood or metal, played by Hausa from Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, & Chad

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Litingu

smaller, 8-string lyre from Kenya

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Obukano

large Kenyan Lyre, double bass of East Africa

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Bengana

large type of lyre, used during Lent, church festivals in Ethiopia

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Akadinda

large Ugandan Xylophone, 20 keys, used in royal court

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Krar

5 or 6 stringed bowl shaped lyre from Ethiopia

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Sansa

hand piano- melodic idiophone

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Mbira

hand piano- Zimbabwe- melodic idiophone

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pan pipes

bamboo or reed instrument composed of multiple small tubes of varying length tied together

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water drum

calabash filled with water, upturend half calabashes float on water, played with stick or mallet made from calabash spoon (West Africa)

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Valiha (Bebey)

tube zither, zithers who's strings run across the shell of a tube

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Seron

harp lute- Guinea

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Etwie

Ghanaian friction drum, played by rubbing drum head with a stick, makes animal roaring noise

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Lithiophone

Group of basalt stones that can be struck to produce music, hit with stone strikers (Togo)

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Instrumental materials

Bamboo, gourd, wood, iron, animal hide, calabash, fruit, millet stocks, clay, animal horns, elephant tusks

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Earth Bow

flexible wooden pole planted in the ground. a string stretched from the upper end to a small plank that covers a hole in the ground

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Mouth Bow

wooden bow with one string attached between two ends and is struck with a stick, mouth acts as a resonator

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Resonator Bow

variation on the mouth bow, with the addition of a calabash resonator that’s placed in the middle of the bow