This instrument also the balafon, which is an African marimba, and also the ngoni which is a five string West African lute.

Music often captures what words cannot. The collections of sounds coalesce to form ideas and phrases that mean something to those who listen to them. When you introduce new types of sounds and ...

The aesthetic dimensions of African musical instruments are not only visual, but aural and symbolic as well. As cultural objects, they can represent and reinforce political authority, social ...

Essay on categorizing the representations of humans and animals on Central African musical instruments. Laurenty develops a four-part schema (page 48), which is based on whether the whole or a part of ...