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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. A. Adungu (Uganda) African fiddle;
African music also uses a large variety of instruments from all across the continent. The music and dance of the African diaspora, formed to varying degrees on African musical traditions, include American music like Dixieland jazz, blues, jazz, and many Caribbean genres, such as calypso (see kaiso) and soca.
Composers of Western art music have increasingly integrated the umrhubhe into their compositions, blending indigenous African sounds with contemporary Western music. One notable example is Michael Blake 's 2013 work, Ukhukhalisa Umrhubhe ("to play the umrhubhe" or "to make the umrhubhe cry"), commissioned by the Festival d’Automne à Paris .
The musical bow (bowstring or string bow, a subset of bar zithers) is a simple string instrument used by a number of African peoples as well as Indigenous peoples of the Americas. [1] It consists of a flexible, usually wooden, stick 1.5 to 10 feet (0.5 to 3 m) long, and strung end to end with a taut cord, usually metal.
African harps, particularly arched or "bow" harps, are found in several Sub-Saharan African music traditions, particularly in the north-east. Used from early times in Africa , they resemble the form of harps in ancient Egypt with a vaulted body of wood, parchment faced, and a neck, perpendicular to the resonant face, on which the strings are wound.
This is in contrast to instruments whose use is reserved for members of the griot caste, such as the balafon, kora, and ngoni. [6] (The djembe is not a griot instrument.) [7] Anyone who plays djembe is a djembefola—the term does not imply a particular level of skill.
The algaita (also spelled alghaita, algayta or algheita) is a double reed wind instrument [1] from the Sahelian region of West-Central Africa that is used by the Bamum, [2] Hausa and Kanuri peoples in Cameroon and Nigeria. Its construction is similar to the oboe-like rhaita and the zurna. The algaita is distinguished from these other ...
Pages in category "African musical instruments" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.