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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.
The xylophone (from Ancient Greek ξύλον (xúlon) 'wood' and φωνή (phōnḗ) 'sound, voice'; [1] [2] lit. ' sound of wood ') is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets.
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 ...
Golden-fronted leafbird (Chloropsis aurifrons). The birdsongs in this piece are from Asia and the Americas: the southern hill myna, the golden-fronted leafbird, the Baltimore oriole, the greater prairie chicken, the northern mockingbird, the catbird, the Indian robin, the white-crested laughingthrush, the american robin (entrusted to the two clarinets), the Swainson's thrush, the hermit thrush ...
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.
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 ...
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The Pixiphone was a range of toy glockenspiels (although they were inaccurately labelled as xylophones on their packaging). The larger Pixiphones had a 'raiser-bar' which could be used to end a note abruptly, rather than letting the sound fade naturally.