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The calabash is used as a resonator in many string instruments in India. Instruments that look like guitars are made of wood, but can have a calabash resonator at the end of the strings table, called toomba. The sitar, the surbahar, the tanpura (north of India, tambura south of India), may have a toomba.
Culturally, the Calabash was used as a signal to call community members to a village meeting for unity. [7] It was drummed using metallic strings for its sound to reach longer distance. To this present day, The calabash is still used for many traditional functions and tourism. [4] Also, witch doctors use it to perform rituals at different ...
The calabash can also be used as a sound board: a finger piano (a flat board with a bridge on which prongs are fastened, that are then played with the fingers) can use a calabash for that purpose, [1] and the gongoma is a similar instrument, using saw blades on a bridge affixed over the calabash—the blades are plucked with the fingers, while ...
Rattles Vessel rattles made of wood in Cameroon. Vessel rattles: similar to the maracas of South America. Materials can include coconut shells and wood. Basketry rattle: can be cylindrically shaped, and are usually filled with grains. Called kwedekwede in Zulgo and mbàcà in Noni, and also played by the Fali, Dii, Voko, Mafa, and Parkwa peoples.
The words they use are the names of friends, rivers and places they can recollect, having no songs.’ Although this description was inaccurate, as it did not describe the strings, it was most likely describing the uhadi musical bow as there is no evidence of any other Xhosa musical bow using a calabash as resonator. Traditionally the uhadi ...
Calabash chalk is a naturally occurring material composed of fossilized sea shells. However, it can be prepared artificially by combining clay, sand, wood ash and even salt. By molding and heating this mixture, the calabash chalk is obtained. [5] It is available as a powder, a molded shape or a block. [4] [5]
The family Cucurbitaceae ranks among the highest of plant families for number and percentage of species used as human food. [5] The name Cucurbitaceae comes to international scientific vocabulary from Neo-Latin , from Cucurbita , the type genus , + -aceae , [ 6 ] a standardized suffix for plant family names in modern taxonomy.
The shekere (from Yoruba Ṣẹ̀kẹ̀rẹ̀) [1] is a percussion instrument consisting of a dried gourd with beads or cowries woven into a net covering the gourd. There are multiple ways to produce sounds with the instrument. It can be shaken or hit against the hand.