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Kora Is A West African Instrument With Twenty-One Strings, Combiningfeatures of The Harp and The Lute A Kora Is

Body percussion is the use of the human body as a musical instrument by clapping, stomping, or slapping various body parts. It is used extensively in music education due to its accessibility and helps students internalize rhythmic skills. Certain music education approaches like Orff, Kodály, and Bapne make particular use of body percussion. The zither is a stringed musical instrument that is played by strumming, plucking, or bowing its strings. It comes in many forms from different regions. The kora is a West African instrument that combines features of the harp and lute, with 21 strings and a large calabash resonator.

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Kora Is A West African Instrument With Twenty-One Strings, Combiningfeatures of The Harp and The Lute A Kora Is

Body percussion is the use of the human body as a musical instrument by clapping, stomping, or slapping various body parts. It is used extensively in music education due to its accessibility and helps students internalize rhythmic skills. Certain music education approaches like Orff, Kodály, and Bapne make particular use of body percussion. The zither is a stringed musical instrument that is played by strumming, plucking, or bowing its strings. It comes in many forms from different regions. The kora is a West African instrument that combines features of the harp and lute, with 21 strings and a large calabash resonator.

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An agog (Yoruba: agogo, meaning bell) is a single or multiple bell now used throughout the world but with

origins in traditional Yoruba music and also in the samba baterias (percussion ensembles). Agogo is a rarities
album by KMFDM. Agogo comprises numerous tracks either previously unreleased, released on other
compilations, or otherwise not widely available
.Body percussion may be performed on its own or as an accompaniment to music and/or dance. Examples of
countries' folk traditions that incorporate body percussion include Indonesian saman, Ethiopian armpit music,
palmas in flamenco, and the hambone from the United States.[1] Body percussion is a subset of "body music".[2]
Body percussion is used extensively in music education, because of its accessibilitythe human body is the
original musical instrument and the only instrument that every student possesses. Using the body in this
manner gives students a direct experience of musical elements, such as beat, rhythm, and metre and helps a
student internalise rhythmic skills. Certain approaches to music education, including Orff, Kodly and
Bapne[4] make particular use of body percussion.
The talking drum is an hourglass-shaped drum from West Africa, whose pitch can be regulated to mimic
the tone and prosody of human speech. It has two drumheads connected by leather tension cords, which allow
the player to modulate the pitch of the drum by squeezing the cords between their arm and body. A skilled
player is able to play whole phrases. Most talking drums sound like a human humming depending on the way
you play. Similar hourglass-shaped drums are found in Asia, but they are not used to mimic speech, although
the idakka is used to mimic vocal music.
The balafon is a kind of wooden xylophone or percussion idiophone which plays melodic tunes, and usually
has between 16 and 27 keys. It has been played in Africa since the 12th century according to oral records; it
originated in Mali, according to the Manding history narrated by the griots.
The mbira is an African musical instrument consisting of a wooden board (often fitted with a resonator) with
attached staggered metal tines, played by holding the instrument in the hands and plucking the tines with the
thumbs. The mbira is usually classified as part of the lamellaphone family, and part of the idiophone family of
musical instruments.
The word Zither is a German rendering of the Latin word cithara, from which the modern word "guitar" also
derives. Historically, it has been applied to any instrument of the cittern family, or an instrument consisting of
many strings stretched across a thin, flat body similar to a psaltery. This article describes the second
variety.[1][2][3]Zithers are played by strumming or plucking the strings, either with the fingers (sometimes using
an accessory called a plectrum or pick), sounding the strings with a bow, or, with varieties of the instrument like
the santur or cimbalom, by beating the strings with specially shaped hammers.
Kora is a West African instrument with twenty-one strings, combiningfeatures of the harp and the lute A kora is
a mandink harp built from a large calabash cut in half and covered with cow skin to make a resonator with a
long hardwood neck. The skin is supported by two handles that run under it. It supports a notched double free-
standing bridge. It doesn't fit into any one category of musical instruments, but rather several, and must be
classified as a "double-bridge-harp-lute".
A horn is any of a family of musical instruments made of a tube, usually made of metal and often curved in
various ways, with one narrow end into which the musician blows, and a wide end from which sound emerges.
In horns, unlike some other brass instruments such as the trumpet, the bore gradually increases in width
through most of its lengththat is to say, it is conical rather than cylindrical.[1] In jazz and popular-music
contexts, the word may be used loosely to refer to any wind instrument, and a section of brass or woodwind
instruments, or a mixture of the two, is called a horn section in these contexts.
The zeze is a stringed instrument[from Sub-Saharan Africa. It is also known by the names tzetze and dzendze,
and on Madagascar is called lokanga voatavo or lokango voatavo. It has one or two strings, made of steel or
bicycle brake wire.
The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a
flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an
opening. According to the instrument classification of HornbostelSachs, flutes are categorized as edge-blown
aerophones. A musician who plays the flute can be referred to as a flute player, flautist, flutist or, less
commonly, fluter or flutenist. A rattle is a type of percussion instrument which produces a sound when
shaken. Rattles are described in the HornbostelSachs system as Shaken Idiophones or Rattles (112.1).[1]
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