Musical Instruments
African musical instruments include a wide array of
drums, slit gongs, rattles, double bells as well as melodic
instruments like string instruments and many types of
xylophone and different types of wind instruments like
flutes and trumpets.
Drums used in African traditional music include tama talking
drums and djembe in West Africa, water drums in Central and
West Africa, and the different types of ngoma drums in
Central and Southern Africa. Other percussion instruments
include many rattles and shakers, such as the kosika,
rainstick, bells and woodsticks. Many cultures use song and
dance to ward off evil spirits, and pay respects to good
spirits, the dead and ancestors.
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