| In traditional African culture, music has
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| | entertainment purpose or for religious
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| ritual, social, and ceremonial functions
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| | ceremonies. Friction sticks, bells,
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| along with some solely recreational
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| | clappers, rattles, cymbals, and sansa are
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| functions. Musical activities are highly
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| | very popular percussion instruments.
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| ritualized and are considered to link the
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| | Among the popular African instruments,
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| invisible world with the visible world.
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| | drums are an important musical
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| Melodies are generally organized within a
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| | instrument. There are various
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| scale of four, five, six, or seven tones.
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| | parchment-head drums such as kettledrums,
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| Musical instruments in Africa take on
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| | cylindrical drums, semi cylindrical
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| sculptural forms that are sacred,
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| | drums, goblet drums, barrel-shaped drums,
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| elaborate, simple, humorous, and serious,
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| | and hourglass drums with variable-tension
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| or a combination of all. Irrespective of
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| | heads. Many wind instruments are
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| whether these musical instruments are
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| | constructed out of horns, tusks, conch
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| beaded, carved, painted, or decorated
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| | shells, or wood. Among wind instruments
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| with skins, they send messages about the
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| | are flutes made of millet, reed, bamboo,
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| religious beliefs, artistic styles, and
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| | or the tips of animal horns, and gourds.
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| entertainment practices of the people who
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| | Panpipes, ocarinas, whistle, oboe, horns
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| made them.
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| | that are made from elephant tusks or
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| Percussion instruments are very popular
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| | animal horns, and trumpets made of wood,
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| musical instruments in Africa. Musical
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| | sections of gourd, or metal tubes,
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| instruments of sub-Saharan Africa
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| | single-reed pipes made from millet
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| comprise of a wide variety of resonant
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| | stalks, and double-reed pipes adopted
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| solids such as stamping tubes, the mbira
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| | from Arabic culture are among other
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| (thumb piano), and the xylophone. Mbira
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| | African wind instruments. African
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| is one of the most popular melodic
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| | stringed musical instruments or
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| instruments in Africa. The mbira is used
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| | chordophones include musical bows,
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| in different ways by different cultures
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| | zithers, bowed and plucked lutes, arched
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| and also exists in different forms in
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| | harps, harp-lutes, and lyres.
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| different cultures. Mbira may be used for
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