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MUSIC IN WESTERN AFRICA

MUSIC IN WESTERN AFRICA. TRADIONAL INSTRUMENTS. Common Instruments in the Music insdutry. There are lots of instruments used nowadays in the western side of Africa. Nevertheless, It is really hard to listen to traditional music without hearing these instruments: The Balafon The Djembe

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MUSIC IN WESTERN AFRICA

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  1. MUSIC IN WESTERN AFRICA TRADIONAL INSTRUMENTS

  2. Common Instruments in the Music insdutry • There are lots of instruments used nowadays in the western side of Africa. Nevertheless, It is really hard to listen to traditional music without hearing these instruments: • The Balafon • The Djembe • The Kora • The Lamellophone • The TalkingDrum

  3. The Balafon The balafon is a resonated frame, wooden keyed percussion idiophone of west Africa. Part of the idiophone family tuned percussion instruments that includes the xylophone, marimba, glockenspiel, and the vibraphone. Sound is produced striking the tuned keys with two padded sticks.

  4. The Djembe The djembe also known as jembe, jenbe, djbobimbe, jymbe, yembe, or jimbay, or sanbanyi in Susu; is a skin-covered drum meant to be played with bare hands. According to the Bamana people in Mali, the name of the djembe comes directly from the saying "Anke djé, anke bé" which translates to "everyone gather together in peace" and defines the drum's purpose.

  5. The Kora • The kora is a 21-string bridge-harp used extensively by people in West Africa. • The sound of a kora resembles that of a harp, though when played in the traditional style, it bears a closer resemblance to flamenco and delta blues guitar techniques • A kora is built from a large calabash cut in half and covered with cow skin to make a resonator, and has a notched bridge like a lute or guitar

  6. Lamellophone • A lamellophone (also lamellaphone or linguaphone, from the Latin root 'lingua' meaning "tongue", i.e., a long thin plate that is fixed only at one end) is any of a family of musical intruments. • When the musician depresses the free end of a plate with a finger or fingernail, and then allows the finger to slip off, the released plate vibrates. A tongue may be plucked either from above or below

  7. The TalkingDrum The talking drum is a West African Hourglass drum whose pitch can be regulated to mimic the tone and prosody of human speech. Other talking drums of conical or tubular construction exist around Africa, but they are rather known by their particular names instead of the term "talking drum". Such non-hourglass shaped African talking drums include the Mande Dunun, Sangban and Kenkeni drums, the Akan Fontomfrom and the Bantu Ngoma.

  8. The Tradition Music Instrument In West Africa Even though the modern music such as rap/ hip hop, Rnb, Techno are dominating the music industry in west Africa, the traditional music still remains a big part of our pride when it comes to music. Nowadays, music producers are doing a wonderful job in mixing those traditional instruments with modern music which secure their existence The Balafon, the Kora, the Lamellophone, and the TalkingDrum represent an inheritance we got from our ancestors and their long life in the business is as important as the new systems used nowadays from the new technologies

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