Musical Instruments of Africa

1.  STRINGS
 WINDS
 PERCUSSION

2. -ARE PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS THAT ARE
EITHER STRUCK WITH A MALLET OR AGAINST
ONE ANOTHER.

3. - A WEST AFRICAN XYLOPHONE.IT IS A PITCHED
PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT WITH BARS MADE
FROM LOGS OR BAMBOO.

4. -are vessels made of seashells,tin,basketry,animal
hoofs,horn,wood,metal,cocoons,palm kernels,or
tortoise shells.

5. -a single bell or multiple bells.
It has the highest pitch among the bateria
instruments.

6. -ARE SLIT GONGS USED AS
COMMUNICATION BETWEEN VILLAGES.THEY WERE CARVED
OUT OF WOOD TO RESEMBLE ANCESTORS AND HAD A SLIT
OPENING AT THE BOTTOM.THEIR SOUND COULD CARRY FOR
MILES THROUGH THE FOREST AND ACROSS WATER TO
NEIGHBORING ISLANDS.

7. -is a hollow percussion instrument.Carved
or constructed from bamboo or wood into a
box with one or more slits in the top.Most
slit drums have one slit,though 2 and 3 slits
occur.

8. -one of the best-known African drums.shaped like
a large goblet and played with bare hands.carved
from a hollowed trunk and is covered with goat
skin.

9. -is a type of gourd and shell magaphone from west africa ,consisting
of a dried gourd with beads woven into a net covering the gourd.
The agbe is another dried gourd with cowrie shells or beads usually
strung with white cotton thread.The axatse is a asmall gourd held by
the neck and placed between hand and leg.

10. -OR SCRAPER IS A HAND PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT
WHOSE SOUND IS PRODUCED BY SCRAPING THE NOTCHES
ON A PIECE OF WOOD WITH A STICK,CREATING A SERIES
OF RATTLING EFFECTS.