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The gyile is a type of West African xylophone, with seventeen keys constructed over gourds. [1] It holds a place in the musical traditions of the Dagara and Birifor people of northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso.
SK Kakraba is a Ghanaian musician and performer of the country's traditional music. He makes and performs gyils, a xylophone containing 14 suspended wooden slats stretched over calabash gourds containing resonators. [1] He was taught to build the instruments using a rare wood known by the Lobi as neura. Kakraba explained: "It's a very hard ...
Each bar is an idiophone tuned to a pitch of a musical scale, whether pentatonic or heptatonic in the case of many African and Asian instruments, diatonic in many western children's instruments, or chromatic for orchestral use. The term xylophone may be used generally, to include all such instruments such as the marimba, balafon and even the ...
Green would die in 1970, just a few years before a revival in the popularity of his ragtime xylophone music, and before his induction into the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame in 1983 [6] The rebirth of his music was led by members of the NEXUS Percussion Ensemble in the late 1970s. Through their efforts, G.H. Green's xylophone music has ...
Music of Myanmar The pattala ( Burmese : ပတ္တလား patta.la: , Burmese pronunciation: [pattəlá] ; Mon : ဗာတ် ကလာ ) is a Burmese xylophone , consisting of 24 bamboo slats called ywet ( ရွက် ) or asan ( အဆံ ) suspended over a boat-shaped resonating chamber.
A gabbang consists of a set of trapezoidal bamboo bars of increasing length resting on a resonator. [2] The number of bars varies with the group that made them: Among Yakans, the number ranges from three to nine bamboo bars, but the common agung gabbang has five; among Tausugs, the number ranges from 14 to 22 bamboo bars, but the common gabbang has 12; and in Palawan, the common gabbang has five.
Finkel was known as one of the world’s greatest xylophone virtuosos. [6] He was the musical director for Michael Feinstein. He also worked for Sid Caesar, Tito Puente, and Ginger Roberts. [7] He played with the New York Philharmonic and played with orchestras that accompanied Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross. [8]
The balafon (pronounced / ˈ b æ l ə f ɒ n /, or, by analogy with xylophone etc., / ˈ b æ l ə f oʊ n /) is a gourd-resonated xylophone, a type of struck idiophone. [1] It is closely associated with the neighbouring Mandé, Bwaba Bobo, Senoufo and Gur peoples of West Africa, [1] [2] particularly the Guinean branch of the Mandinka ethnic group, [3] but is now found across West Africa from ...