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Seperewa; String instrument; Classification: Ghanaian stringed instrument with 6-14 strings: Hornbostel–Sachs classification: 323-5 (Acoustic instruments which have a resonator as an integral part of the instrument, in which the plane of the strings lies at right angles to the sound-table; a line joining the lower ends of the strings would be perpendicular to the neck.
Seprewa – 6–10 stringed harp of the Akan and Fante peoples of south and central Ghana, used in an old genre of praise music. Sogo – the largest of the supporting drums used to play in Atsiã; Lobi xylophone. [25] Goun kakagbo – hongan [31] Calabash – A dried calabash bowl turned upside down and hit with the fist and fingers wearing ...
Category for musical instruments of the United Arab Emirates. Pages in category "Emirati musical instruments" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
Bantu migrations: 1 = 2000–1500 BC origin; 2 = ca.1500 BC first migrations; 2.a = Eastern Bantu; 2.b = Western Bantu; 3 = 1000–500 BC Urewe nucleus of Eastern Bantu; 4–7 = southward advance; 9 = 500 BC–0 Congo nucleus; 10 = 0–1000 AD last phase Use of African bell patterns is found primarily within the Niger–Congo language family (yellow and yellow-green).
Ewe music is the music of the Ewe people of Togo, Ghana, and Benin, West Africa. Instrumentation is primarily percussive and rhythmically the music features great metrical complexity. Its highest form is in dance music including a drum orchestra, but there are also work (e.g. the fishing songs of the Anlo migrants [1]), play, and other songs.
The atenteben [1] (atɛntɛbɛn) [what language is this?] is a bamboo flute from Ghana. [2] [3] It is played vertically, like the European recorder, and, like the recorder, can be played diatonically as well as chromatically. Although originally used as a traditional instrument (most often in funeral processions), beginning in the 20th century ...
The first form Adaha music was spreading throughout southern Ghana and other parts. The Konkoma also called Konkomba, was a drum and voice that developed and spread in 1930 as Adaha evolved. [ 3 ] This version spread because in the small towns and villages, expensive brass instruments could not be afforded by the people.