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  2. List of African musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of musical instruments from the Africa continent as well as their countries or regions of origin. ... (West Africa) Kalindula (Southern Africa ...

  3. Category:West African musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "West African musical instruments" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.

  4. Music of West Africa - Wikipedia

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    Traditional music of West Africa incorporates the use of a variety of percussive instruments, the most popular of which is the djembe. Known also as the 'magic drum' or the 'healing drum', the djembe is spiritually important to West African tradition as it is believed that three spirits reside within the drum .

  5. Music of Africa - Wikipedia

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    Drums used in African traditional music include talking drums, bougarabou and djembe in West Africa, water drums in Central and West Africa, and the different types of ngoma drums (or engoma) in Central and Southern Africa. Other percussion instruments include many rattles and shakers, such as the kosika (kashaka), rain stick, bells and wood ...

  6. Category:African musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    West African musical instruments (15 C, 23 P) A. African percussion instruments (1 C, 14 P) Arabic musical instruments (17 C, 42 P) B. Berber musical instruments (1 C ...

  7. Xalam - Wikipedia

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    Xalam (in Serer, khalam in Wolof, and Mɔɣlo in Dagbanli) is a traditional lute from West Africa with 1 to 5 strings. [2] The xalam is commonly played in Mali, Gambia, Senegal, Niger, Northern Nigeria, Northern Ghana, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, and Western Sahara.

  8. List of national instruments (music) - Wikipedia

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    This list contains musical instruments of symbolic or cultural importance within a nation, state, ethnicity, tribe or other group of people. In some cases, national instruments remain in wide use within the nation (such as the Puerto Rican cuatro ), but in others, their importance is primarily symbolic (such as the Welsh triple harp).

  9. Yoruba music - Wikipedia

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    Yoruba folk music became perhaps the most prominent kind of West African music in Afro-Latin and Caribbean musical styles; it left an especially important influence on the music used in Santería [2] practice and the music of Cuba. [3] The Yoruba people of south-western Nigeria are also one of the most socially diverse groups on the African ...