VIDEOS OF TRADITIONAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

VIDEOS OF TRADITIONAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

This Cocojams page includes a sampling of YouTube videos that showcase different traditional musical instruments from around the world. This page also includes YouTube videos of other musical instruments which may be unfamiliar to many people living in the United States.

This Cocojams.com page was inspired by the recent attention that was given to the vuvuzelas- those long plastic horns that became a symbol of the 2010 World Cup which was held in South Africa.

The purpose of this page is to help people find YouTube videos of selected musical instruments. It's my hope that this page will be used as a supplementary educational resource.* I also hope that other individuals besides me will enjoy listening to, watching videos of, and learning about these musical instruments. In so doing, people may be motivated to learn more about the cultures that created these instruments.

*Every video featured on Cocojams.com (and its sister website jambalayah.com) are appropriate for viewing by children & teens [as determined by mainstream American standards.]

Videos on this page are posted in alphabetical order using the first letter of one of the featured instruments in that video. The title of the video is the one given by the YouTube video's uploader. The names of the featured musical instruments are given in brackets under the video's title,

The video entry includes the video's title, the name of the uploader, the date of the video's posting on YouTube, and any summary statement from the video uploader. Information about specific instruments may also be included with its respective video. In some cases, one or more viewer comments may also be posted below the featured video. While these video's viewer comment threads may be accessed by selecting the "watch on YouTube" option that is provided by clicking on the video itself, readers should be forewarned that a number of comments posted to specific threads may not be suitable for non-adult readers.

My thanks to all those who originally uploaded these videos on www.youtube.com. My thanks also to YouTube for making the embedding process easy for non-techie people like me.

Disclaimer: I consider myself to be a community folklorist. I love listening to music & I enjoy watching music videos. Unfortunately, I don't play any musical instrument and I've never studied ethnomusicology anywhere but informally online. I definitely don't consider myself to be an expert on the subject of traditional musical instruments. I'm passing on information that I've gleaned mostly from online sources.

I very much welcome information and corrections from visitors to this page. Comments about these featured videos as well as suggestions of other YouTube videos of traditional musical instruments that may be featured on this page can be sent to cocojams17@yahoo.com. Thanks!

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ALPHABETICAL LIST OF FEATURED INSTRUMENTS
(names for the same instrument are included in parenthesis; this page also features additional traditional or "unfamiliar" musical instruments whose names I don't know, as well as other musical instruments)

Abeng
Accordion
Akonting
Angklung
Autoharp
Bagpipes
Balafon
Banjos
Berimbau
Bilma (Australian clapsticks)
Bodhran
Bomba
Bones
Bouzouki
Caixas
Cajon
Carillon
Castanets
Claves
Conga
Cow bells (agogo)
Darbuka (Doumbek Goblet drum; Chalice drum)
Didgeridoo
Djembe
Donso ngoni
Djun djun (not to be confused with dun dun listed with "talking drum")
Dulcimer
Glockenspiel
Guira
Guiro (also known as calabazo; guayo, ralladera; rascador; reco-reco)
Gonje
Gourd drums
Ghatam
Hand drum (Native American)
Harp
Hosho
Jugs
Kayakum
Kazoo
Klewon (also known as kone)
Kora
Kudu horn
Kulintang
Lute
Lyre
Maracas
Marimba
Marimbula (rhumba box)
Mbela (musical bow)
M'congo (mougongo; African musical bow)
Mridangam
Nadhaswaram (also called nagaswaram)
Ngoma
Ngoni
Nyatiti
Ocarina
Oud
Pan (steel drums)
Panderetas
Pandeiro (tamborim)
Pan pipes (pan flutes; quena; quills, syrinx)
Penny whistle
Pipes (double pipes)
Rebite
Rababa
Rubboard (frottoir)
Shamisen
Shofar
Sitar
Sekere (also spelled shekere)
Tabla
Taiko
Talking drum (also known as dun dun, dunun; konkoni, kenkeni, sangban, dununba, djeli-dun)
Tambourines
Tanbour
Thavil
Thumb piano (mbira, mbila, mbira huru, mbira njari, mbira nyunga, marimba, karimba, kalimba, likembe, okeme; sanza; also see marímbula )
Tin whistle
Udene
Udu
Uhadi
Ukelele
Umrhubhe
Vaksin
Vuvuzela
Washboard
Washboard bass
Xalam
Yirdaki
Zither

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FEATURED VIDEOS

A, B, C

Jamaican National Anthem 2009

[Featured musical instrument- Abeng*]
*shown & played only in the beginning of the video

vfxwolf | January 09, 2010

Opening with a call from the Maroon "Abeng" horn, this contemporary version of the Jamaican National Anthem showcases the beauty, people, art, athletics and cultural diversity of our island home, Jamaica. ..

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From http://www.courses.vcu.edu/ENG-snh/Caribbean/Barbados/Images/abeng.htm
"Abeng is an African word meaning conch shell. The blowing of the conch called the slaves to the canefields in the West Indies. The abeng had another use: it was the instrument used by the Maroon armies to pass their messages and reach one another"

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Here's a viewer comment from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Atd0rxbBU&feature=related "The Jamaican Maroon Slave" which is another video that briefly shows the abeng:

owusuwaa24- "Abeng is a Horn.. abeng is a twi word...Accompong maroons I have no doubt are directly linked to the Ashant tribe of Ghana west africa"

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Accordian- See several videos on this page, including those posted in the "r" section for the musical instrumeny called a "rubboard" ("frottoir") .Also, see the entry for "melodeon".

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Agogo-See several videos posted in the "c" section for "cowbell"l

Also find an eample of the African cowbell in the video "Ayan Bisi Adeleke - Master talking drummer - drum talks" that is posted under "d" for "dundun".

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Akonting playing by Joe Diatta. Dakar. 07-2006

[Musical instrument- Akonting]

UlfJagfors | September 29, 2006
Joe Diatta (Jatta in english) plays an old Jola tune on the three string gourd lute Ekonting (Akonting). The name of the tune is Ampa Youtou, Child of Yuotou, a village in southern Senegal.The Akonting is one possible West African forerunner to the New World banjo.

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See other plucked string African instruments such as the donso ngoni, kamale ngoni, kora, and xalam on this page.

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Yesterday (The Beatles) - Angklung

[Musical instrument- Angklung]

sebastian3o | August 25, 2007
Orchestra of Angklung of basic secondary school nº 171 "Argentina - Indonesia Damai" Integrated by young people of 12 to 15 years. Director: Sebastián Núñez.
constructor of instruments: Saung Angklung Udjo (Terima Kasih)

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Here's an excerpt from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angklung
"Angklung is a musical instrument made out of two bamboo tubes attached to a bamboo frame. The tubes are carved so that they have a resonant pitch when struck. The two tubes are tuned to octaves. The base of the frame is held with one hand while the other hand shakes the instrument rapidly from side to side. This causes a rapidly repeating note to sound. Thus each of three or more angklung performers in an ensemble will play just one note and together complete melodies are produced. Angklung is popular throughout Southeast Asia...",

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Rihanna "Umbrella" - Angklung/Bamboo Version

[Musical instrument- Angklung]

KageFurqaan90 | September 21, 2007
Toy Angklung.
Live at Anugerah Era 2007 [ASTRO RIA].

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Autoharp - Wayfaring Stranger

[Musical instrument: autoharp]

gfharper | April 11, 2007
Noodling around with my Ron Wall Mountain Harp

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Scottish Bagpipe Band

[Musical instruments: bagpipes, drums]

HenryRoot | November 12, 2006
A Scottish Bagpipe band playing in Beauly near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands.

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Awesome Talent with Bagpipes

[Musical instruments: bagpipes and drums]

nicedudetim2000 | May 31, 2006
Taken in Scotland March 2003

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Adama Diabaté - balafon [Mali?]

[Musical instrument: "balafon"]

Posted by fababobo | February 08, 2008 | 3:41
"Adama diabaté au Balafon 20 pentatonique pour BaraGnouma."

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Orodara Sidiki [Mali?]

[Musical instruments: balafons, various drums including djembes, gourd drums, and djun djuns]

benlefab | March 25, 2009 | 6:56
orodara sidiki joué pour un mariage à bobo dioulasso par seydou dembélé et une des team de bolomakoté

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Video Description: A roadside musical performance in Mali. [?]

Note that "djun djuns" (sometimes given as dunduns) are different than the Yoruba talking drum that is also called "dun dun". See the information about "djun djun" in the "d" section beneath the video "west african drums - senegal".

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Mexem-Ifira rose.avi

[Musical instruments-drum, guitar, vertical bamboo sticks (name?), percussion box with stick (name?) ]

Wacebew | December 06, 2008
no description available

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Another exact copy of this video identifies this vocalist (or the group) as "Edou". Here's some information regarding this group: [Edou is] "From the Drueulu Tribe, located in Lifou (Loyalties Islands), Edou is a well known artist in his native New Caledonia and the South Pacific." Click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Caledonia for information about New Caledonia, although there is no information posted there regarding that nation's culture.

The rhythm to this song sounds like Reggae to me, and the shirts that the men are wearing are dashikis, an African American modification of the dansiki, a traditional Yoruba (Nigeria, West Africa) men's attire. I posted a request in the viewer comment thread for information about the names of the vertical bamboo sticks and the percussion box with a stick. I also hear a shaking instrument but I'm not sure that it is shown in the video.

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Banjo Music "12th Street Rag"

[Musical instruments: banjos and guitar]

wyatturban | November 12, 2007
Jim Robinson (88) plays "12th Street Rag" on tenor banjo at Banjos International Rally in Eureka Springs, ARK, September 2001.

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Carolina Chocolate Drops performing "Cornbread and Butterbeans"

[musical instruments: banjo; violin (fiddle); jug; bones]

knoxnews | May 12, 2008

Visit http://www.jambalayah.com/node/791 to find another reposting of this video & to read selected comments about this video from YouTube viewers.

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Yoruba Bata: A Living Drum and Dance Tradition from Nigeria

[musical instrument: bata drums; other drums]

debraklein | August 29, 2007
Introduction to Yoruba Bata Performance as practiced in Erin-Osun, Nigeria. Featuring Lamidi Ayankunle, master Bata drummer from Erin-Osun.

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La Fuerza del Tambor (The Power of the Drum)

[Musical instruments: bata drums, sekere (shekere-beaded gourd rattles); cow bell; other bells; and conga drums)

La Fuerza del Tambor

Posted by tinamatanzas
June 06, 2007

"The Power of the Drum" offers 8 examples of live drumming ceremonies in the home of Alfredo Calvo (Matanzas, Cuba) featuring bata, güiro, and the Bembe Macagua drums. The DVD also includes interviews and drumming demonstrations. 90 minutes, all regions.

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See the entry for sekeres (shekeres) below in the "s" section.

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Zerfu Demissie (Ethiopia)

[musical instrument: begena]

terprecords | July 23, 2007
www.terprecords.nl Begena Music + singing from Ethiopia
Traditional 10-string harp, the harp of King David
Very old religious music played during Lent.

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Here are several viewers' comments about this instrument:
janster200-"This sounds the same as the Sumerian lyre. There are some videos here on YouTube where the reconstructed Sumerian lyre is being played. The two instruments look different but they sound the same. In Ethiopia, they just never stopped playing it."

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Klezfiddle1- I am increasingly fascinated by the similarilty between the Begena, and the replica ancient Jewish Kinnor Lyre which I play!Does anyone out there know if is there also a TENOR version of the begena, which would be more similar in pitch to the ancient Jewish Kinnor; the orginal "Harp of David"?

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manofchange83- But Kirar and Begena are complitily diffrent when you play kirar you get exiteing music but when you play begen the sound is very depressing .that is why it is used mainly on the fasting season of HUDADE which lasts for two months and ends on Easter day ,the music they play with begena is always about the suffering of Christ.

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Música de capoeira

[Featured musical instrument: berimbaus & shakers]

canguru50 | April 06, 2007

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Berimbau Solo Instrutor Bae 2

[Musical instrument: berimbau; small rattle]

baeoficina | September 13, 2007
Instrutor Bae breaking on the berimbau at Grupo Internacional Oficina da Capoeira's 2nd "Festival Axe e Felicidade" in Bogota Columbia

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Bodhran Demonstration

[Musical instrument- Bodhran]

exit8babe | February 21, 2007
The bodhran is the traditional Celtic frame drum. The cross braces and laminated rosewood strengthen the shell of this goatskin-covered drum. With a rich deep sound, these drums are great fun even if you have not mastered the traditional playing.

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The Corrs- Toss The Feathers [Ireland]

[Musical instruments- bodhrán, tin whistle ; violin, piano]

piperh066 | May 23, 2007
hey i put this video from the corrs' mtv uplugged so is kind old but is a great song and the solo are greats. enjoy it!

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Bongo- see the entry Jorge Gonzalez-bongos, cowbell and guiro"
that is posted under "a" for agogo.

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Bomba in Loiza, Puerto Rico #1

[Musical instruments- bomba (drums); maracas)

gyenyamesankofa | August 09, 2008
This is one of several videos that I will be posting from my trip to Puerto Rico in July 2008.

This clip features Bomba drummers and dancers at Raul Ayala's house in Loiza, during La Fiesta de Santiago Apostol.

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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomba
"Bomba is one of the folk musical styles of Puerto Rico. it is a largely African-derived music. The rhythm and beat are played by a set of hand drums and a maraca. Dance is an integral part of the music...Bomba is described to be a challenge between the drummer and the dancer. The dancer produces a series of gestures to which the primo drummer provides a synchronized beat. Thus, it is the drummer who attempts to follow the dancer and not the other way around...

The traditional drums used in bomba are called barriles, since they have long been built from the wood of barrels. The high pitch drum is called "subidor" or "primo", and the low pitch drums are called "buleador" and "segundo"."

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Armando Peraza solos on congas and bongos

[musical instruments: conga drums and bongo drums]

martincongahead | January 29, 2007
Legendary Cuban percussionist, Armando Peraza performs solos on congas and bongos.

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Ithikon Akmeotaton- Pente Ellines ston Adi (live)

[Musical instrument- bouzouki]

ithikonakmeotaton | October 22, 2006
Acoustic Session. Recorded 16.10.2006 live at at Octalogic Studio (GER)

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Here's a viewer's comment from that video's thread:
Zeuxis5511 ...."This is Greek tradition and heritage to the entire world. You must be Greek to understand the depth of this song.
This is a Bacchic Zeus dance for life. Zeimpekikos.
Bravo an excellent performance of Giannis Papaioannou's original song."

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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouzouki
"The bouzouki (gr. το μπουζούκι; pl. τα μπουζούκια) (plural sometimes transliterated as bouzoukia) is the mainstay of modern Greek music. It is a stringed instrument with a pear-shaped body and a very long neck. The bouzouki is a member of the 'long neck lute' family and is similar to a mandolin. The front of the body is flat and is usually heavily inlaid with mother-of-pearl. The instrument is played with a plectrum and has a sharp metallic sound."...

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Calabash drums- see entries under "g" for gourd "drums"

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Cajon Solo David Kuckhermann

[musical instrument: cajon]

kurt | June 12, 2006
http://www.framedrums.net
David Kuckhermann - Ballhaus, Berlin, 29.04.2006

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Samuel Torres performs on cajon and Colombian maracas

[musical instruments: maracas and cajon]

martincongahead | October 11, 2006
Award winning, Samuel Torres performs a solo piece on Cajon and Colombian maracas as part of the Profiles in Greatness series

Here's some information about the "cajon" from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caj%C3%B3n :

" cajón (Spanish pronunciation: [kaˈxon], "crate," "drawer," or "box") is a kind of box drum played by slapping the front face (generally thin plywood) with the hands...The cajón is the most widely used Afro-Peruvian musical instrument in the 20th century.

Slaves of West and Central African origin in the Americas, specifically Peru, are considered to be the source of the cajón drum; though the instrument is common in musical performance throughout the Americas. In Cuba, the cajón is associated with the Afro-Cuban drum/song/dance style known as rumba, while in Peru it is associated with several Afro-Peruvian genres."

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Live beiaard concert / Carillon Concert Live in Mechelen

[Musical instrument: Carillon]

quasimodo2 | July 26, 2006
Jo Haazen is playing Prelude II of Matthias Vanden Gheyn on the Carillon of the Sint-Rombouts Tower in Mechelen (Belgium/Flanders). His cabin is about 80 meter high and he is surrounded by 49 Tuned Bronze Carillon Bells.

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Also see the entry for Glockenspiel on this page.

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Guajira Castanets and Guitar

[Musical instruments: castanets and guitar]

FlamencoForSchools | November 28, 2007
María José García plays Guajira a flamenco piece for Castanets and Guitar.

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Rumba in Havana Vieja 3

[Musical instruments- claves; conga drums; cajon; mounted cowbell]

rqshquesada | September 21, 2006
This is another song from the same day Rumba in Havana Vieja. Here you will see them start and then stop. It began to rain a few minutes later and that's when I made it into the owner's house. ..

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From http://www.percussionclinic.com/infolat.htm#clave
"Claves are a pair of solid, wood sticks, each about seven inches long and an inch in diameter, and usually made of rosewood. One clave is cupped loosely in the hand and is struck with the other. The clave are used widely in Latin America, and most popular in Cuba. The rhythm usually played on the clave is called 'clave'."

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Rumberos De Cuba Cuban Music

[Musical instruments: include claves; bata drums; conga drums; cajon; and other percussion instruments]

CubaCheChe | October 26, 2007
the Rumberos de Cuba 2008

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This video includes clips of rumba dances and Santaria dances (orisha Egun; Osun)

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Pedro "Pedrito" Martinez sings song, accompanies on conga

[Musical instrument: conga drums]

martincongahead | October 22, 2006
Award winning percussionist, Pedro "Pedrito" Martinez sings song and accompanies himself on conga

Click http://www.jambalayah.com/node/784 for more information & comments about this musician and this video.

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Conga drums- also see the entry "Tito Puente y Charlie Palmieri - Jam En El Barrio" that is reposted under "t" for "timbales".

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ogene udu 1 (Nigeria)

[Musical instruments: udene (cowbell); sekere (beaded gourd); udu (clay pot drum)

ef | August 14, 2009
This short video by Eugene Skeef shows 5 brilliant Igbo musicians from Nigeria demonstrating the different instruments of an ogene-udu ensemble. Opanka, who introduces the improvised piece on ogene, is the leader of this group that Eugene caught up with in a village in Enugu state, eastern Nigeria, just before they were to perform ritual music at a funeral. The ogene is a double bell. The udu played here is the one-hole version of the clay pot drum. You are invited to appreciate the polyrhythmic interlocking of rhythmic patterns played on the different instruments within an overall 6/8 rhythm.

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Jorge Gonzalez-bongos, cowbell and guiro

[Musical instruments: bongos; cowbell (agogo); guiro]

martincongahead | November 28, 2006
Jorge Gonzalez, bongocero with Spanish Harlem orchestra demonstrates martillos, cowbell and guiro patterns

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCiro
"The güiro (pronounced GWEER-oh or WEE-roh[1]) is a Puerto Rican percussion instrument consisting of an open-ended, hollow gourd with parallel notches cut in one side. It is played by rubbing a wooden stick ("pua") along the notches to produce a ratchet-like sound. The güiro is commonly used in Latin-American music, and plays a key role in the typical cumbia rhythm section. The güiro is also known as calabazo, guayo, ralladera, or rascador. In Brazil it is commonly known as reco-reco."

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Cuban Music Jam Session

[Featured musical instruments- cowbell, conga drums, claves, timbales, bongos]

boogaluproductions | December 14, 2006
http://www.boogalu.com/generic_descar...
Clip of the Boogalu Productions DVD "Descarga Pi-Mozambi-Son"

Descarga in Spanish means to unload. The tradition of descarga in Cuba is about unloading creatively in music - a special form where musicians can improvise and interact with more freedom. To this end, descargas often have stripped down arrangements of a repeating melody line, strong bass, and percussion. With this rhythmic groove solid, individual musicians have permission to solo, invent, and stretch out.

In the spirit of descarga, a group of exceptional Cuban musicians assembled under the leadership of Santiago "Chaguito" Garzón, the former musical director of "Rumberos de Cuba" and "Clave Y Guaguancó. For this project Chaguito invited a group of longtime friends, many from his native Guantánamo. Included are musicians from such legendary groups as Conjunto Chappottín y Sus Estrellas, Orquesta Sublime, and Pachito Alonso y Sus Kini Kini....
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D, E, F

Onur Darbuka Solo

[Musical instrument- darbuka; also known as doumbek; globlet drum; chalice drum]

silivrilidarbukaci | July 02, 2006
From Turkey İstanbul/silivri ONUR DARBUKA solo he is amazing :)

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Here's an except from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goblet_drum
"The Goblet drum (also Chalice drum, Darbuka or Doumbek) is a goblet shaped hand drum used mostly in music originating in countries near the Middle East. Its thin, responsive drumhead and resonance help it produce a distinctively crisp sound. Though it is not known exactly when these drums were first made, they are known to be of ancient origin.

Traditionally, goblet drums may be made of clay, metal, or wood. Modern goblet drums are also sometimes made of synthetic materials, including fiberglass. Modern metal drums are commonly made of aluminum (either cast, spun, or formed from a sheet) or copper. Some aluminum drums may have a mother-of-pearl inlay, which is purely decorative. Traditional drum heads were animal skin, commonly goat and also fish. Modern drums commonly use synthetic materials for drum heads, including mylar and fiberglass."...

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Grand Master Djembe Player! [Mali]

[Musical instruments: djembes and djun djuns]

rootsymali | September 13, 2006 | 10 minutes
"Sega Cisse is a 70 year old master djembe player from Mali. Amazing - www.rootsyrecords.com

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In the late 1960s when I was active in an African American cultural group in Newark, New Jersey (The Committee for Unified Newark) that promoted African culture, drummers played conga drums and bongos while women danced. I don't think we knew about djembes then. But my guess is that it was after the late 1980s that the djembe became the most widely played African drum in the United States.

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Here's an excerpt from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djembe
"A djembe (pronounced /ˈdʒɛmbeɪ/ 'JEM-bay') also known as jembe, jenbe, djimbe, jymbe, yembe, or jimbay, or sanbanyi in Susu; is a skin-covered hand drum shaped like a large goblet and meant to be played with bare hands. According to the Bamana people in Mali, the name of the djembe comes directly from the saying "Anke dje, anke be" which literally translates to "everyone gather together" and defines the drum's purpose. In the Bamanakan language, "Dje" is the verb for "gather" and "be" translates as "everyone"...

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Traditional Djembe Playing in Senegal

[Musical instruments: "djembe"]

rootsymali | April 04, 2007 | 7:24
"Mamadou Sidibe plays solo djembe for a wedding ceremony in Tambacounda, Senegal. Sidibe is a great example of traditional style djembe playing."

Editor: A number of other videos that include the (West African) djembe drum are reposted under various entries on this page.

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Bonga & The Vodou Drums of Haiti [Haiti; Australia]

[Musical instruments include Haitian drums and the Australian didgeridoo.]

CTMDTouringArtists | May 22, 2009 | 2:03
"Master Haitian percussionist, Gaston Bonga Jean-Baptiste, leads Bonga and The Vodou Drums of Haiti, a collective that presents traditional Haitian roots music, mizik rasin. This versatile ensemble features skilled ceremonial drummers, singers and dancers rooted in the diverse musical tradition of Haiti.

Laced between vodou rhythms and traditional chants are instruments such as the mbira, didgeridoo, and conch. Vodou Drums of Haiti are also presented in an innovative jazz format featuring drum, cello, reeds, brass, balafon and vocals centered on mesmerizing rhythms and pulsating bass grooves. Audiences will experience an extraordinary historical, cultural, and spiritual journey that remains unseen in todays musical landscape. With an extensive repertoire of Afro-Haitian rhythms, kreyol songs and regional dances, music of The Vodou Drums traverses the plains, mountains and coasts, conjuring images of Haitis spirit, beauty and way of life."

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west african drums - senegal

[Musical instruments-djembe; djun djun; tama (talking drum)]

maely84 | September 02, 2008
seattle's bumbershoot 2008 -thione & gora diop

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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_drum
The words for "talking drum" in various [African] languages (language-word)
Akan - Dondo ; Fante - (Gomua) Odondo; Twi -Dondo; Dagbani- Gurunsi Lunna or Donno; Hausa- Kalangu; Songhai- Doodo; Wolof- Mandinka Tama or Tamma;
Bambara- Bozo; Dyula-Tamanin; Igbo- Ekwe; Yoruba Dundun- Gangan

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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunun
"A Dunun (also known as dundun, doundoun, or djun-djun) is the generic name for a family of West African bass drums that developed alongside the djembe in the Mande drum ensemble. It is not to be confused with the dundun, the Yoruba name of the West African talking drum. There are different sizes of dunduns, ranging from 25 to 60 cm. Basing on the size, construction technique and tuning, there are different names for each type of dundun. Some of the most often used names are konkoni, kenkeni, sangban, dununba, djeli-dun, etc."

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African from Burkino Faso with Hand Made instrument Venice Beach California

[Musical instrument- donso ngoni]

NameOnRice | December 09, 2008
Unique music from Africa. Instrument is Ngoni. Filmed by Name On Rice.com

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Here's a viewer comment that provides information about this instrument:

leftysergeant - "...This kind of ngoni is called a "donso ngoni." It has 12 strings. Kora has 21. It probably gave rise to the kora. The banjo was derived from the smaller form of the ngoni, or a similar instrument called the "akonting." The ngoni or something like it is shown in Egyptian tomb paintings, so it has had time to evolve a lot. Some historians trace it back to the Sumerian culture, along with the lyre (which is still widely played in Africa.)"

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Click http://www.kora-music.com/d/familie.htm (The Family of Kora) to read more information about the donso ngoni and other related instruments.

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Videos of "koras" are posted below in the "k" section of this Cocojams page. Also see other videos of smaller "ngoni" posted in the "n" section of this page.

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Ayan Bisi Adeleke - Master talking drummer - drum talks

[Musical instruments: dundun (talking drum); agogo (cow bell); sekere (beaded gourd rattle), and another drum (name?)]

edElud | August 04, 2007
Bisi playing the talking drum. Plays dundun - part 1.

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From http://www.world-beats.com/instruments/dundun.htm
"Nigeria talking drum (dundun)"Pronounced (" doon-doon "), and sometimes referred to as a talking drum, is a wooden hourglass-shaped, two-headed drum covered with goatskin, whose twin heads are laced together by thongs of gut or leather. This instrument is cradled under one arm while the other hand strikes one side of the drum with a curved wooden stick. By manipulating tension on these thongs, the player can alter the pitch of the tone he/she is making, thus enabling the dundun to "talk" or produce the tones that sound like words. A master drummer can maintain a regular monologue on a talking drum, saying hi to different people, cracking jokes, and telling stories."

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Nigerian dundun should not be confused with the Senegalese djun djun. These are different African drums that may be played along with the talking drum. See the video west african drums - senegal" posted above.

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Burundi Drummers

[Musical Instruments: drums (name?) ]

borosjutub | March 05, 2008 | 4:52
Amazing drum show from Burundi

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Mangueira samba school [Brazil]

[Featured musical Instruments- caixas, repiniques, and tamborim]

ozmusicshop | May 04, 2008 | 1:51
mangueira samba school from the film Moro no Brasil

* Here's an excerpt from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Carnival :
"There is an ensemble of drum and percussion players that are led by a man that plays an apito, a whistle used to control the music. The apito has three tones but is not very loud, so many leaders prefer to use referee whistles instead.

There are several types of drums within the ensemble including the surdos, caixas, repiniques, and tamborim. The surdo is a wide and deep drum that gives the bass drum foundation sound. The caixas is similar to the snare drum that gains it sound from the thin springs underneath the scin of the drum. Repiniques are just like the caixis except they do not have the sharp snare sound because they are missing the springs. Tamborims make similar sounds to the snare but are actually small cylinders covered with one tight skin. Not like five tones."

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Here's an excerpt from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samba_school :
"Battery is a kind of orchestra with percussion instruments, to accompany the singing and lead the pace of the parade. The faster and stronger pace in the battery case, the faster members usually parade...The following usually form part of a battery of the samba school instruments: first of Deaf, deaf second-, third-deaf, box, war, peal, rattle, tambourine, cuíca, agogô, reco-reco, tambourine, and plate..."

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Mangueira 100 Anos de Cartola [Brazil]

[Musical Instruments: various kinds of drums & other percussion instruments]

cesariguape | November 04, 2008 | 3:58
Feijoada da Mangueira on the day of commemoration of 100 Years of Top Hat ...

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American Indian Chant *

[Musical instrument- Native American hand drum]

Digitalreelz | January 06, 2008
Filmed in Abq, New Mexico

* This video viewer's comment corrects this video's title:
nachise51-"Folks, this is not a "chant", it's a good, old-fashioned round dance song, and round dance songs are usually love songs. Nothing mystical, just good human stuff for social dances.

Good song, great voice."

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Click http://www.jambalayah.com/node/801 for additional selected viewer comments about this video.

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9 Year Old Rocks Hand drum

[Musical Instrument -Native American hand drum]

1ootsie | September 08, 2009
9 year old Aaron sings a rounddance song at alexis first nation

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Editor: From other videos I learned that this singer's name is Aaron Letendre.
Here's a viewer's comment from another video of Aaron that appears to be in response to a question about which Native American population is Aaron from:

inimee -"nakotasioux
Washtay! a nakota warrior in the makings."

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Twin Eagle drum group at Zuni 2007

[Musical instrument - Native American drum]

enotah | February 24, 2008
Video filmed at a pow wow in Zuni, New Mexico.

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Here's a viewer's comment:

gelthie-"Twin Eagle are from Zuni, NM (Zuni Nation)"

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Ghanaian Drumers - Dzeleimi Drumming Company

[Musical instruments- drums (names?) and cowbell (name?)

ever1979 | January 17, 2008
Lenka & Eva in Ghana Summer 2007 - learning dumming and dancing

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Old African Slave Song

["Musical instrument": small stones hitting a large rock]

rorhan | November 14, 2008 | 2:56
I am from California and I went to Ghana in the Spring of 2008. I toured northern Ghana where I took this footage..

Viewer comment:
OrchestrationOnline [Posted in 2009] -This is incredibly complex. The guy on the back is laying down the basic 1 - 2 beat. The guy closest is doing tricky subdivisions similar to a drum paradiddle. The guy farthest right is going 3-3-3-3-1-1. The guy farthest left is leading the singing, but also doing a syncopated triplet against the beat. The guys center right is dividing each bar of 8 into 7, while singing a response in time. Call of 3 bars, response of 3 bars, with counterpoint on the voices.

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Editor: This is a video of Ghanaian men snging & rhythmically hitting a large rock with stones. For the purpose of this page, I'm posted it under the heading of "drums".
Compare this with the musician tapping rhythyms on the calabash (gourd drum) in the video of the group from Niger "Etran Finatawa" and the video of the group from Mali "Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba at the Jools Holland 2007". Both of these video are posted under "g" for "gourd drum".

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Click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpIrnv3fS6o&feature=related for an excellent vintage clip from a Cuban film that includes a number of traditional drums and iron percussion percussion instruments. Sorry, I'm unable to enbed this classic video.

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"River Flow" Medieval Hammered Dulcimer Music by Dizzi

[Musical instrument: hammered dulcimer]

dizzid11 | April 10, 2007
This Song is available on my new album "Dulci Solo"
if you would like a copy please go to my website

http://www.dizzi.co.uk/dulcisolo.php

If you are interested learning or buying a dulcimer or are interested in anything Dulcimer related please visit my website

www.dizzi.co.uk

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Dulcimer - Wildwood Flower - Stephen Seifert

[Musical instrument: mountain dulcimer]

stephenseifert | March 05, 2008
Stephen Seifert playing Wildwood Flower (PUBLIC DOMAIN) on a mountain dulcimer tuned DAD. http://stephenseifert.com/

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Frottoir-See videos posted in the "r" section for "rubboard"

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G, H, I

Balinese Gamelan Music

[Musical instruments-metallophones, xylophones, drums and gongs; bamboo flutes, bowed and plucked strings]

siithao | January 01, 2007
When we stayed in Bali, the guest house we were in had a gamelan band that practiced on a regular basis. This was a great opportunity to record their music.

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Excerpt from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamelan
"A gamelan is a musical ensemble from Indonesia, typically from the islands of Bali or Java, featuring a variety of instruments such as metallophones, xylophones, drums and gongs; bamboo flutes, bowed and plucked strings. Vocalists may also be included...

The word "gamelan" comes from the Javanese word "gamels", meaning to strike or hammer, and the suffix "an", which makes the root a collective noun. Real hammers are not used to play these instruments as heavy iron hammers would break the delicate instruments."

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Snowflake by gayageum [musician-"tomatomedia"

[Musical instrument- gayageum]

tomatomedia | November 21, 2007
Snowflake
played [on the] Gayageum.
Gayageum is [a] Korean Traditional Instrument.
Normally Gayageum is 12 strings. But modern gayageum is modified to 25 strings.

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Ghatam- see the video posted under "m" for "mridangam"

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Musicas Glockenspiel

[Musical instrument- Glockenspiel]

klebaumm | February 02, 2007
Eu tocando uma coletanea no glockenspiel

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Here;s an excerot from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glockenspiel
"A glockenspiel [German Glocken (bells) + spielen (to play)] is a percussion instrument, composed of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano. In this way, it is similar to the xylophone; however, the xylophone's bars are made of wood, while the glockenspiel's are metal plates or tubes, thus making it a metallophone. The glockenspiel, moreover, is usually smaller and higher in pitch.

In German, a carillon is also called a Glockenspiel".

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For similar instruments, see the entries on this page for carillon; marimbas,vibraphone, and xylophone,

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Gonjey Music (Fiddle Music) - Dagomba People

[Musical instruments-gonje (one string fiddle); and beaded gourd]

africanbushdoctor | December 14, 2006
Gonjey music from the Dagomba people, Northern Ghana, West Africa.

Here's an excerpt from http://www.frantisekpavlik.estranky.cz/clanky/o-nastrojich/goje.html
"The goge is West African one string stick fiddle found in a variety of shapes and sizes, and known by a number of names. The most common form is known as goge by the Hausa and Yoruba in Nigeria and the Songhay, Djerma, Mauri, and Hausa in Niger. In Ghana the Mamprusi-Dagomba call it a gonje and in Benin it can be reffered to as a godie. Typically goge are made from a lizard skin covered half gourd, pierced by a thin neck and a horsehair string that passes over a small bridge placed close to the edge of the gourd. Bowed with a small horsehair bow, the goge has a very distinctive sound that makes use of a multiphonic voice. Played by both men and women with great virtuosity, the goge is used in small ensembles and to accompany singing"..

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Niger - Etran Finatawa

[Musical instruments- gourd drums (calabash drums) guitars, drum, metal anklets; handclapping]

idamawatu | November 21, 2008

Note that the calabash drums (gourd drums) ae being played with a stick and without a stick in this video. Each of the calabash drums that is played with two sticks are in a bowl of water.

This video is also reposted on this page of Cocojam's sister website http://www.jambalayah.com/node/794

Via http://www.etranfinatawa.com/ I learned that Etran Finatawa is a group that is composed of musicians who are Tuareg and Wodaabe-Fulani from the West African nation of Niger Their group name means "‘the stars of tradition’.

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For another video featuring the gourd drum see rhe entry "Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba at the Jools Holland 2007 [Mali]" that is reposted under "ngoni"

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cundito guira demostracion desde santiago

[Featured musical instrument-guira]

cunditovip | August 31, 2009
santiago ciudad corazon

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See the videos on this page that feature the "guiro"

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Local Band Playing Merengue in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

[Musical instruments- guira; accordian, drum, and cajon]

cancale | August 23, 2006
Jill and I caught this band performing at a restaurant on Avenida George Washington close to our hotel.

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See an example of the wooden "guiro" below and also in the video "Jorge Gonzalez-bongos, cowbell and guiro" that is posted under "b" for "bongo."

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sawing14s | July 02, 2008
¡Es hora de plena!

[Musical instruments- guiro; panderetas; keyboard]

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This is a clip from the American children's television show "Sesame Street". That show often includes segments with live musicians & vocalists.

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From http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/instruments/panderetas/
"Panderetas resemble tambourines but without the cymbals. These are handheld drums with stretched animal skins covering a round wooden frame. These may also be called "panderos"."...

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A definition of the Spanish word "plena" from http://www2.si.umich.edu/chico/salsa/texts/glossary.html:
"plena- "A Puerto Rican folk ballad, often accompanied by guitars, guiros , maracas and conga drums"

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l homme a la harpe

[musical instrument: harp]

allahndong | January 08, 2008

Lord Ékomy Ndong ☥
hip hop made in mapane
zorbam produxions
gabon
libreville

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Iron Maiden in the harp

[Musical instrument: harp]

mandrakx77 | March 15, 2008

Made in Brasil !!!

Thanks for all to watching this video !!!

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Botswana-Zimbabwe Music Lenaka la Kudu 3

[ Musical instruments: "hosho" (rattle) and "kudu" (antelope horn) ]

Bokete7 | September 06, 2008 | 2:32
"Musical refugee Innocent Chivarange from Glendale Zimbabwe born in 1963, singing the song "Tsamba Tsamba Nyora Tsamba" with shaker & kudu horn.
In shona language the horn is called Hwamanda....From a very very low level Gaborone Dam,"...

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Innocent Chivarange ft shaker & kudu horn - "Makanaka Makanaka Mwari" shaker & kudu horn.

[Musical instruments- hosho and kudu]

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Mawungira Enharira [Zimbabwe]

[Musical instruments-"hosho" (rattles); mbira (finger pianos), ngoma (drums)]

okirakugama | May 01, 2007 | 6:53
"Remarkable mbira group from Zimbabwe.
The groove sound comes with the dancers percussion and ngoma drums . No longer it is healing sound , it is definetry the groovy which you can not refuze to dance."

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Selected viewer comments posted in 2009:

amutanga- Okirakugama, thanks. That's our Zimbabwean traditional music. Tisu varidzi ve mbira nehosho.

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palmerkeen-that hosho player RULES!
If you know him, tell him he is GREAT

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okirakugama - The hosho player named Tonderai Piri.
I dedicate this video to the spirit of Tonde with huge respect.
His dance was beautiful with amazing steps .
His hosho and slap sticks added real spice in Mawungira sound.
I thank his permission for taking and up loading those videos now for the most.
I will remember what you taught me until i have them .
This is a gift from Tonde to share.

J, K, L

Jug- see entry "Carolina Chocolate Drops performing "Cornbread and Butterbeans" that is posted under "b" for "banjo" and "bones"

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African Harp and Thumb Piano Ensemble

[Musical instruments: kalimba (thumb piano)*; adungu (harp); shaker (name?); drum (name?)

alkisaka | August 01, 2007

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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumb_piano
"The [thumb piano] instrument is known by different names in different regions of a Africa, including Mbira, Mbila, Mbira Huru, Mbira Njari, Mbira Nyunga, Marimba, Karimba, Kalimba, Likembe, Okeme, as well as marímbula (also called kalimba) in the Caribbean Islands.

The thumb piano originated as an instrument typically played while walking by traveling Griots. It is also often played at religious ceremonies and social gatherings." .

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Also see "mbira" for other videos of thumb pianos.

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Chul Kang' Kayagum Performance '출강' 가야금 연주 [Korea]

[musical instruments: kayakum]

chosunmusiccom | October 05, 2008
평양음악무옹대학
People's Orchestra 100th Anniversary Memorial Kayagum Concert
인민배우 정남희 100돐 기념 가야금 연주회

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From http://www.parandeul.co.kr/kayakum..htm:
The kayakum is a twelve-stringed zither. It was first used in the sixth century. It is made of a long rectangular piece of wood. On top 12 strings of twisted silk stretch across a series of bridges, much like a violin or cello, only a lot more. The instrument is played in a sitting position. Sounds are made by plucking and flicking the strings with the fingers of the right hand. The left hand presses down on the strings to the left of the movable bridges.

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North Korean Kayakum Prodigy Cho Okchu

[musical instruments: kayakum; and a two headed drum]

tedlipman | April 05, 2008
Taken at a practice session at the music conservatory in Pyongyang. Cho is 20 years old

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Eddie Thomas & Carl Scott - My Ohio Home (November 21, 1928)

[Musical instruments: ukelele; kazoo, washboard]

peglegsam | December 31, 2006
Richmond, VA

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Other videos of washboard instruments are posted on this page under "w".

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Rara music of Haiti - 6

[Musical instruments include "klewon--also known as "kone" (long home-made metal trumpets) and the vaksin (a one-toned bamboo trumpet) ]

mbreginny | February 01, 2009 | 5:19
"World music Recordings of real raras passing in Haiti"

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Here's an excerpt from
http://www.heritagekonpa.com/Rara%20F%20women%20celebrate%20Haitian%20Ra... for more information and slide show

[Rara is ] "Considered a Lenten festival, in fact, it is not just Catholic but incorporates many Vodou elements and the bands in Haiti consider themselves Vodou groups. Historically, Rara bands were primarily a rural tradition (carnival was urban), seen, on weekends, walking and playing on the country roads. Now, they're equally as popular in Port-au-Prince. One of the music's distinctions is the use of the one-toned bamboo trumpet, the vaksim* creating what seems to be an out-of tune sound but is really quite deliberate."...

* The correct spelling is "vaksin"

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The very informative article on Haitian traditional music http://svr1.cg971.fr/lameca/dossiers/vodou_music/eng/p5.htm describes vaksins as "a set of bamboo trumpets of various size and pitch"

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Here's more information about rara instruments that is excerpted from the uploader's summary statement for the YouTube video "Kamelit "Racine Mapou De Azor"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2xOn1IcAAM :

"Rara processions incorporate various types of musical instruments such as kongo or petro drums, twompet (trumpets), tcha-tcha (maracas), graj (metal scrapers), bells, kes (doubled headed and stick beaten, often with a snare like device), flutes, saxophones, and various kinds of rattles made from zinc such as the tchancy, a can filled with seeds. However, the leading instruments in these celebrations are the vaksin, cylindrical trumpets made of bamboo, and the klonet, made of hammered zinc and ending in a flared horn.

These bands are led by presidents, colonels, queens and other members of the complex rara hierarchies. The bands set out on foot from the ounfo (temple) onto the streets where they attract their followers. After the temple, they move from house to house collecting money and occasionally engaging in low level conflict with other groups. The groups are led by their president who has a whistle and a whip, which he uses to clear malevolent spirits from the path of the procession. Despite its seasonal association, rara may take place at any time of the year and animates political rallies, demonstrations and celebrations of all types. Rara processions have traveled with the Diaspora, so it is quite common to experience these celebrations in cities in the United States, Canada, and France, among others".

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Note that the Haitian "klewon" looks exactly like the South African "vuvuzela".

See other videos on this page that feature the "klewon" under "v" for "vaksin" (bambooo horns)

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Mamadou Diabate -"Tunga"

[Musical instrument: kora]

MamadouKora | June 26, 2008
Mamadou Diabate performs on Mali National TV.

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Toumani Diabate - Elyne Road [Mali]

[Musical instrument: West African "kora"]

reebeeking | March 26, 2008 | 2:28

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kora_(instrument) : "The kora is a 21-string harp-lute used extensively by peoples in West Africa. A kora is built from a large calabash cut in half and covered with cow skin to make a resonator, and has a notched bridge like a lute or guitar. The sound of a kora resembles that of a harp, though when played in the traditional style, it bears a closer resemblance to flamenco and delta blues guitar techniques. The player uses only the thumb and index finger of both hands to pluck the strings in polyrhythmic patterns (using the remaining fingers to secure the instrument by holding the hand posts on either side of the strings). Ostinato riffs ("Kumbengo") and improvised solo runs ("Birimintingo") are played at the same time by skilled players."

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Kudu antelope horn
See the entry "Botswana-Zimbabwe Music Lenaka la Kudu 3" that is posted on this page under "h" for "hosho" (rattle)

Also, click http://www.jambalayah.com/node/828 "Bwiti Dance (Gabon). The kudu is played in the beginning and in other portions of that video. That video also features musicians playing the harp bow, drums, and rattles.

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Making Music with Bamboo (Kulintang) Part 1

[Musical instrument-Kulintang]

blessedmiracles | April 12, 2009
This Easter Sunday, Nong Badong joined us at the beach and played his Kulintang for us - that was fun indeed

Here's an excerpt from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulintang
"Kulintang is a modern term for an ancient instrumental form of music composed on a row of small, horizontally-laid gongs that function melodically, accompanied by larger, suspended gongs and drums. As part of the larger gong-chime culture of Southeast Asia, kulintang music ensembles have been playing for many centuries in regions of the Eastern Malay Archipelago — the Southern Philippines, Eastern Indonesia, Eastern Malaysia, Brunei and Timor,..."

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Jambatan Tamparuli & Aramaii tii-Bamboo instrument

[Musical instruments- Bamboo tube, rattles; flutes, knockers, Kulintang]

Tindoon | November 15, 2008
...Bamboo orchestra LIVE at Sutera Harbour. SABAH FEST 2007.

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http://www.bambooman.com/bamboomusic_pangkat.php provides the following list of musical instruments that are played in a Filipino bamboo orchestra. Some of those instruments appear to be found in in the video of the Sabah group;

"The group's musical instruments, numbering more than a hundred are made of six genera of the versatile bamboo in various sizes, shapes and designs. Include the bamboo tube or “bumbong,” the bamboo marimba or” “talungating,” the bamboo piano or “tipangklung,” the bamboo flute or “tulali,” the bamboo knockers or “kalatok,” and the bamboo musiscal rattles,[and the] the Philippine “angklung”. Completing the bamboo assortments are the drums, cymbals gong and triangle." :

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Click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabah to find information about the Malaysian state of Sabah.

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Also, see the entries for Balafon, Marimba, Vibraphone, and Xylophone on this page for very similar instruments.

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Greensleeves - Anonymous - Cutting - Lute

[Musical instrument-lute]

Luthval | April 29, 2008
Another version of Greensleeves, the most famous lute tune (I believe)
Here I play first the anonymous version from the William Ballet lute book (probably the first known version for solo lute of Greensleeves), then the version by Francis Cutting, and back to the first version at the end...
There is a song : Greensleeves was all my joy probably earlier to the lute solo. (1584)
Lute made by Stephen Murphy.

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From
"Lute can refer generally to any plucked string instrument with a neck (either fretted or unfretted) and a deep round back, or more specifically to an instrument from the family of European lutes.

The European lute and the modern Near-Eastern oud both descend from a common ancestor via diverging evolutionary paths. The lute is used in a great variety of instrumental music from the early Renaissance to the late Baroque eras. It is also an accompanying instrument, especially in vocal works, often realizing a basso continuo or playing a written-out accompaniment....

The words "lute" and "oud" derive from Arabic al‘ud (العود; literally "the wood").[1] Recent research by Eckhard Neubauer suggests that ‘ud may in turn be an Arabized version of the Persian name rud, which meant "string," "stringed instrument," or "lute.""...

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A video of the oud can be found below on this page.

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Oseh Shalom on 10 string lyre

[Musical instrument-lyre]

racylaserjet | January 10, 2008
He who makes peace in His heights may He make peace upon us and upon all Israel; and say, Amen.

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Duo 4500-year-old reproduction lyre & pipes

[Musical instrument- lyre and pipes]

MarkHarmer | September 29, 2007

This is a duet between the reconstructed lyre of ur and some reconstructed silver pipes found in the same grave.

Although the lyre strings didn't survive the intervening years, we can reconstruct a musical scale from the position of the holes in the pipes.

The original lyre and pipes were excavated by Sir Leonard Woolley at Ur, Mesopotamia. They were deposited in museums at Baghdad and Philadelphia.

The replica of the Lyre was made by Andy Lowings and friends.

The Silver pipes were evaluated and made by Bo Lawergren.

I made this video to support the Lyre of Ur project at http://www.lyre-of-ur.com ;;;

M, N, O

Jose Granado Maracas

[Musical instrument- Maracas]

hbarroso01 | October 16, 2008
Solo de Maracas

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Note that the maracas are held by the gourd or close to the gourd. In contrast, in the United States maracas are almost always held near the bottom of the sticks.

Also see the entry "Samuel Torres performs on cajon and Colombian maracas" that is posted under "c" for "cajon".

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Botswana Music Marimba 1.

[Musical instruments- Marimbas]

Bokete7 | October 27, 2008
The Marimba band of North Side Primary School Gaborone giving us a tune to remember.

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Here's an excerpt from http://percussioneducationonline.com/2008/05/what-is-the-difference-betw...

..."One of the most often mis-understood differences is the difference between a Marimba and a Xylophone. This article aims to clarify those differences, and also point out the similarities between the two.

The Marimba and the Xylophone both have wooden bars. The word Xylophone comes from the greek “xylos” meaning wood. Therefore there can be no such thing as a “metal xylophone” – any metal bar instrument is either a Glockenspiel, Vibraphone or Metallophone.

The main practical difference between a Marimba and a xylophone is one of range.

The xylophone is generally a much higher pitched instrument, and is sounds one octave higher than its written pitch, therefore it can have a very bright and high sound. The Marimba is written at sounding pitch, and has much lower notes than the Xylophone...

The xylophone is also generally played with much harder mallets than the marimba, often made of very hard rubber or even wood or plastic. The Marimba is usually played with mallets that are wound with soft yarn, and this allows it to have a very mellow rolled sound.

It might look like the marimba has more “tubes” under the notes, but the xylophone has them as well – they are just smaller. The Tubes are called “resonators”, and their function is to amplify the sound. The lower the note, the larger the resonating tube needs to be, hence why the marimba needs to have larger tubes under the notes"....

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The instruments in this video look very much like balafons to me. See the entries on this page for balafons.

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Let CSOM Marimba Tabasco

[Musical instruments- marimba; snare drums; guitars, guira]

familianueve | November 19, 2008

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The viewer comments indicate that this group is from Mexico. Notice how two people are playing the same marimba. A number of YouTube videos of marimbas show more than two people playing the same marimba. Also notice how the drummer used his drum sticks like claves to begin the performance.

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Grupo Changui De Guantanamo Dax 08 toros y salsa [Cuba]

[Musical instrument-marimbula, bongos, maracas, guiro]

joacopercusion | September 23, 2008
Grupo Changüi de Guantanamo en vivo en Toros y salsa Dax 08, interpretando guarare de pastora.
Disfruten del changui tradicional, con marimbula y bongo ! ...

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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADmbula
"A marímbula (Spanish pronunciation: [maˈɾimbula]) is a folk musical instrument of the Caribbean Islands (not to be confused with a marimba). The marímbula is usually classified as part of the lamellophone family of musical instruments. With its roots in African instruments, marimbula originated in the province of Oriente, Cuba in the 19th century. Eventually it spread throughout the Caribbean the Americas and Africa, from Liberia to the Congo. By the 1930s it had made its way to Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, other Caribbean islands, Mexico, and as far away as New York City. The Cubans call it marímbula, and most of the other Caribbean countries have adopted this name or some variant of it: marimba, malimba, manimba, marimbol. The instrument has a number of other names, such as marimbola (Puerto Rico), bass box (also spelled Calimba or calymba), Rhumba box, Church & Clap, Jazz Jim (Jamaica), and box lamellophone."...

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Mbira- see the entry "Mawungira Enharira [Zimbabwe]" that is reposted under "hosho"

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arc musical art africain

[Musical instrument-musical bow]

meskalyn | December 23, 2006

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Mbela: Arc musical

[Musical instrument: mbela (musical bow)

FredSwimsuit | March 16, 2009
Un Pygmée Aka joue de l'arc musical. Une vidéo de Sorel ETA.
Aka people largely live in Central Africa

Here's information from http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Arts/music/instruments/minstrumentaf... about the Baka people and their musical bow:

"The Ngbaka, who live in the forested area of the country, use their mbela, or musical bow, in their trapping rites. The instrument, made by the musical-hunter, is composed of a strongly-arched branch and string cut from a species of creeper; the string is stretched between the two ends of the branch and held in front of the half-open mouth. When struck with a thin stick, the string produces a fairly faint single note; to bring out another note, the player then touches it with a blade. The mouth cavity, acting as a natural resonator of varying shape and volume, amplifies and modulates the tones. The very earliest traces of the musical bow, which is regarded as the father of stringed instruments, or at any rate of the harp, may be those left in a cave engraving in Ariège,
dating back more than 15 thousand years. The engraving portrays a man dressed up as an animal, holding a bow in front of his face, in a position similar to that adopted by the musician of the Central African Republic."

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For more information on the Baka people visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aka_people

Also see entries on this page under "berimbau" , m'congo, Uhadi and Umrhubhe for other videos of musical bows.

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Berimbau Africano Gabon

[ musical instrument: m'congo (mougongo) ]

TVcapoeiraAngola | January 06, 2008
m'congo player in Gabon (West Africa)

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The Legendary Bobby Gardiner on Melodeon

[Musical instrument- melodeon]

comhaltas | December 23, 2007
Legendary accordion player Bobby Gardiner plays a hornpipe, a jig and a reel on melodeon at the Peig Ryan Tribute Concert. Bobby, currently a member of the Brú Ború Troupe in Cashel, Co. Tipperary, lived in the USA during the 1960s.

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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatonic_button_accordion
"A diatonic button accordion or melodeon is a type of button accordion where the melody-side keyboard is limited to the notes of diatonic scales in a small number of keys (sometimes only one). The bass side usually contains the principal chords of the instrument's key and the root notes of those chords."...

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Mridangam Master

[Musical instrument: mridangam]

mlivevideo | October 12, 2007
Rohan Krishnamurthy, a senior at Kalamazoo College explains the different sounds produced on the mridangam, a classical Indian drum. For more info, please visit http://www.mlive.com/kzgazette
Video by Mark Bugnaski /copyright Kalamazoo Gazette/ Mlive

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Carnatic - Revati Tillana - Misra Caapu - Lalgudi Jayaraman

[Featured musical instruments: mridangam; ghatam, violin)

Click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mridangam for information on the mridangam. Click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghatam for information on the ghatam (earthenware pot)

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Nadaswaram performance by Kasim & Babu - Part 5

[Musical instruments-nadhaswaram, (also called nagaswaram), thavil (drum), and cymbals]

istreamcarnatic | July 09, 2009
Kasim and Babu's Nadaswaram performance at 'Chennaiyil Thiruvaiyaaru' programme.

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Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba at the Jools Holland 2007 [Mali]

[Musical instruments: ngoni; gourd drum; gourd rattle]

reebeeking | March 10, 2008 | 3:23
live Mali Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba Africa http://www.tpafrica.it/

From http://worldmusiccentral.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=bassekou_kouyate
"Bassekou Kouyate is one of the true masters of the ngoni, an ancient traditional lute found throughout West Africa, and he has collaborated with many musicians in and outside of Mali. He played in the Symmetric trio alongside Toumani Diabate (kora) and Keletigui Diabate (balafon). He was part of Taj Mahal's and Toumani Diabate's Kulanjan project, as well as being one of the key musicians on Ali Farka Toure's posthumous album Savane which was released July 2006. He also toured with Ali Farka Toure before Toure passed away, leaving a lasting impression on the audience as the band's solo ngoni player"...

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Bassekou Kouyate's group is named "Ngoni Ba".

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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngoni_(instrument)

"The ngoni or "n'goni" is a string instrument originating in West Africa. Its body is made of wood or calabash with dried animal (often goat) skin stretched over it like a drum. In the hands of a skilled ngoni instrumentalist, the ngoni can produce fast rapid melodies. It appears to be closely related to the akonting and the xalam and this instrument family is believed to be the ancestor of the American banjo. This ngoni is called a jeli ngoni, played by griots to perform at celebrations and other special occasions to play the traditional songs (fasa's in manding-language).

Another type of ngoni is believed to have originated among the donso, a hunter and storyteller caste of the Wasulu people. The larger donso ngoni is still largely reserved for ceremonial purposes while the smaller kamale ngoni has entered popular musical styles such as Wassoulou music."
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Kenya Music 2

[Musical instruments: type of lyre (nyatiti?) and a bucket drum]

Billtoone | May 01, 2008
http://www.ecolifefoundation.org/
A longer version of Kenya musicians with homemade instruments near Mpala Research Center.

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Ayub Ogada-"Africa Calling" (Kenya)

[Musical instuments: nyatiti; guitars; djembe]

idamawatu | April 09, 2007

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This video is reposted with selected comments on Cocojams.com's sister website:
http://www.jambalayah.com/node/779

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Song of Time on Ocarina

[Musical instrument- ocarina]

docjazz4 | December 31, 2006

From
"The ocarina ( /ɒkəˈriːnə/) is an ancient flute-like wind instrument. While variations exist, a typical ocarina is an oval-shaped enclosed space with four to twelve finger holes and a mouthpiece that projects from the body. It is often ceramic, but other materials, such as plastic, wood, glass, and metal may also be used.

The ocarina is a very old family of instruments, believed to date back some 12,000 years. Ocarina-type instruments have been of particular importance in Chinese and Mesoamerican cultures. The ancient Chinese Xun, made of clay, has a history of probably several thousand years. Different expeditions to Mesoamerica, including the one conducted by Cortés, resulted in the introduction of the ocarina to the courts of Europe. Both the Mayans and Aztecs had produced versions of the ocarina, but it was the Aztecs who brought the song and dance that accompanied the ocarina to Europe."

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Oud Music By Ali Hassan

[Musical instrument- oud]

abuseedo | November 21, 2006
Ali Hassan playing the Oud. Ali Hassan one of the top oud players today.
The founder of learnoud.com

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oud
"The oud (Arabic: العود‎, al-'ūd) is a pear-shaped stringed instrument commonly used in Middle Eastern music. The modern oud and the European lute both descend from a common ancestor via diverging evolutionary paths. The oud is readily distinguished by its lack of frets and smaller neck."...

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P, Q, R,

Silver Stars - Thunder Comming [Trinidad & Tobago]

[Musical instruments: pans (steel drums); other percussion instruments]

IsDePanInMe | March 30, 2008 | 8:14
2008 Steelband Panorama Finals

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Despers (Desperados) - Ten Commandments of Pan [Trinidad & Tobago]

[Musical instruments: pans (steel drums); other percussion instruments]

IsDePanInMe | February 22, 2008 | 8:15
Steelband Panorama Finals 2008, Robert Greenidge arranger, Jason "Peanut" Isaacs and Ingrid de Peiza composer. [Trinidad & Tobago]

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pandeiro solo

[Musical instrument: Pandeiro (tamborine)

melodicmajor | February 22, 2007
Pandeiro solo of pandeiro master Iron Hands playing for percussionist Biboul Darouiche in Salvador de Bahia Brazil (2003).

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Here's a viewer's comment about this performance:

Rono49- This Master pandeirista is off-the-map with his style(s) of playing. When he plays his pandeiro like a Djembe or Conga, it sounds absolutely amazing. That's a first for me.
Bravo!

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Zamfir

[Featured musical instrument: Rumanian panflute]

Menblack | January 17, 2007
Gheorghe Zamfir,,The Rumanian king of the pan flute.

The tune that is played is titled "Memories" (From Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "CATS")

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See "Espiritu Andino-El Condor Pasa" below for another video that features pan flutes (pan pipes). That video is posted under "q" for "Quenas, the Andes notched-end flutes)

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Espiritu Andino-"El Condor Pasa"

[Featured musical instruments- Quenas (notched-end flutes) and panpipes Sikú (also known as zampoña)]

wejt007 | February 26, 2009
Espiritu Andino-El Condor Pasa
http://www.espirituandino.com
http://peru.info/ http://www.peru-explorer.com/ http://www.cuscoperu.com/ http://www.aboutcusco.com/ http://www.cusco.net/ http://www.cusco-peru.org/

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Visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siku_(panpipe) for more information.

Also visi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andean_music for more information on Andes musical instruments

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Pipes-
See the video for "Pipes and Harp" above

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Ritmo Nativo full, By Edgar Muenala at Nativosite

[Featured musical instruments- quena (flute) and zampona (panpipes)]

nativosite | January 04, 2007
Peace, love, happines, from the soul of the edgar muenala flutes.

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Visit http://www.jambalayah.com/node/807 to find this video with selected viewer comments.

Note that "quills" is an old word in the United States and Britain for "pan pipes". Another name for the panpipes is "syrinx".

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Brass Kap van Langa - Simpiwe Matole (South Africa)

[pennywhistles; percussion (earthenware jug?); box rattle (name?) j

Rouvanne | July 22, 2006
From the Amampondo: 25 Years of Skins DVD (MZADV 003) this is a beautiful track composed by Simpiwe Matole, from Langa township outside Cape Town South Africa, with simple percussion and two penny-whistles, played by Duke Norman & Luyanda Nbete.

Filmed in the Cape Point Nature Reserve.

Published by MELT 2000 Publishing

www.amampondo.com or http://insidepeakperformances.blogspo... for more info about the track.

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Nubian Musician playing on Rababa

[Musical instruments: rababa; drums]

johannazen | May 17, 2009
http://habibifromegypt.blogspot.com/
http://johannazentgraf.net
video 2008
johanna zentgraf

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Nereu Mocotó plays Rebite and Pandeiro
[Musical instruments: Rebite and pandeiro (Brazilian tamborine)

brazilianmconnection | October 04, 2007
Invented by Nereu Mocotó "Rebite" is a percussion instrument that consists of a aluminium bucket full of iron screws. This clip reveals the talent of this Samba legend where he performs an amazing solo with his invention and reproduces the same groove in the Pandeiro. Enjoy!

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Reco Reco-see videos for guiro on this page.

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Buckwheat Zydeco - "Creole Country"

[musical instruments: accordian; guitars; saxophone; snare drums; tamborine; rubboard (frottoir)

marksydow | March 03, 2008
Buckwheat Zydeco - Creole Country. Filmed on Buckwheat's first and only tour to Australia & NZ in 1989

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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washboard
..."The frottoir, also called a Zydeco rub-board, is a mid 20th century invention designed specifically for Zydeco music. It was designed in 1946 by Clifton "King of Zydeco" Chenier, and fashioned by Willie Landry, a friend and metalworker at the Texaco refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. Clifton's brother Cleveland Chenier famously played this newly designed rubboard using bottle openers. Likewise, Willie's son, Tee Don Landry, continues the traditional hand manufacturing of rubboards in his small shop in Sunset, LA."

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Queen Ida and The Bon Temps Zydeco Band - Rosa Majeur

[Musical instruments: accordian; guitars; saxophone; snare drums; fiddle;
rubboard (frottoir)

Posted by sexmex5
April 06, 2008

"Good Zydeco"

Visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zydeco for more information about the zydeco rubboard.

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Yosvany Terry Shekere Solos [USA]

[Featured musical instrument: sekere (shekere]

martincongahead | October 22, 2009
In addition to being one of the most renown saxophone players, Yosvany Terry is considered one of the virtuoso shekere players. Listen to two solos of this master as performed on October 22, 2009 at Harlem Stage in New York City.

Also see the entry for "Ayan Bisi Adeleke - Master talking drummer - drum talks" that is posted under "d" for "dundun".

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Occidental Brothers Dance Band International - Nyenko

[Musical instruments- sekere, cow bell, snare drums, guitars, fugle horn, saxophone, bass, claves, and whistle... (Conga drums are also shown in the video but they aren't played for this song.]

kexpradio | July 19, 2009
Occidental Brothers Dance Band International perform live at the Triple Door in Seattle as part of the 25th anniversary of The Best Ambiance on KEXP. Recorded 6/29/09.

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Here's an excerpt from this group's myspace page http://www.myspace.com/occidentalbrothers#ixzz0vOYBYHz1

"The Occidental Brothers’ blend of high-energy soukous, rootsy Ghananian Highlife and African Jazz conjures sounds of the golden age of the African guitar band and has made them favorites of of music critics and devotees of the style, but it’s a sound that has also seduced an audience of listeners as diverse as the members of this multi-racial band"...

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shamisen - a japanese three-stringed instrument

[Musical instrument- Shamisen]

kiuioiuytrew | July 27, 2006
Amazing shamisen music!

The player's name: Osanai Kaoru

The song's name: tsugaru-jonkara-bushi.

...How to play shamisen: Hit strings with Bachi(the large pick)vertically to body,so strings touches body part.When strings touches body,it makes percussive sound.And you have to push strings with your nail when playing the shamisen.

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Shofar blast [Israel]

[Musical instrument: "shofar"]

Jewishfan | September 17, 2007 | 2:29
"Hear sounds of shofar, see images of shofar, and short overwiew of what shofar blast means to Jewish People."

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Amazing Sitar Player

[Musical instruments: sitar and tabla]

gul23 | April 01, 2008
Prasanna plays a solo performace for Achannak 2007. EXCERPT. Hunter College, October 7, 2007. www.prasanna-sitar.com

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Steel drums - see entries under "pan"

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Rohan Singh Bhogal - Tabla Solo

[Featured musical instrument: tabla]

Ravi99Singh | December 25, 2007
Tabla Solo in 11 beat cycle. Concert in Edmonton, Canada. For more information check out www.virtuosoprodn.com

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Taiko Medley

[Musical instruments: Taiko]

mikew7 | May 21, 2006
Japanese Taiko Drumming by Auckland's Haere Mai Taiko.

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Talking drums - see the entry for "Ayan Bisi Adeleke - Master talking drummer - drum talks" that is posted under "d" for "dundun".

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Tamborine- See videos for Pandeirosee. Also see the entry "Nereu Mocotó plays Rebite and Pandeiro" that is posted under "r" for "Rebite".

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Tanbour From Southern Sudan

[Musical instrument: tanbour]

sfscorpio1 | January 20, 2008
Tanbour From Southern Sudan

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Thakil melam, thakil, traditional, percussion, instrument, orchestra, music, drum, Tamil Nadu, India

[Musical instruments: thavil (drum) and small cymbals] India

indiavideodotorg | February 26, 2009
For more information on this video click -

http://www.indiavideo.org/kerala/heri...

Video by http://www.invismultimedia.com

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For more information about thavils click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thavil

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Thumb piano- see the entry "African Harp and Thumb Piano Ensemble" that is posted under "k" for kalimba. Also see the videos for mbiras on this page.

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Tito Puente y Charlie Palmieri - Jam En El Barrio

[musical instruments: timbales; conga drums, piano, and other instruments]

SalseroPesoCompleto | July 01, 2008

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbales
"Timbales (or pailas criollas) are shallow single-headed drums with metal casing, invented in Cuba. They are shallower in shape than single-headed tom-toms, and usually much higher tuned. The player (known as a timbalero) uses a variety of stick strokes, rim shots, and rolls on the skins to produce a wide range of percussive expression during solos and at transitional sections of music, and usually plays the shells of the drum or auxiliary percussion such as a cowbell or cymbal to keep time at other parts of the song."

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Changuito Timbale Solo Conga Virtuoso

[Musical instruments- timbales; congas; bongos,cowbell, keyboard, and bomba drum (?) ]

rqshquesada | May 12, 2007
Attention: Calling on all the Youtube Community!!! Those of you who got some Changutio solos on video, please upload them.. There doesn't seem to be a lot of videos of him on Youtube.

The one and only master, Timbalero Changuito. Enjoy the video!

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Madosini Manqina - Queen of South Africa's Pondoland Music

[musical instrument: Uhadi and Umrhubhe ]

Rouvanne | July 05, 2006
Madosini, from Langa township outside Cape Town South Africa, is a master story-teller, composer and musician.

Treating audiences to traditions passed down from generation to generation, Madosini was filmed here playing the Uhadi and Umrhubhe - Rhodes Memorial September 2005.

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"The Uhadi is the South African version of the Brazilian berimbau, a bow with a single tunable string and an open gourd resonator. In addition to the two fundamental pitches, several overtones from the gourd are available.

First you tune the wire to the pitch you desire. Then you strike the string with a small stick to make it sound. Pinch the string between the thumb and forefinger about 1/12 of the way from the end to shorten the length of the vibrating string and strike again, you will get the second tone. Now, place the opening of the gourd against you chest as you play, and experiment with tilting the gourd opening slowly away from you, and you will hear a "wah-wah" sound similar to the kalimba's "wah-wah". By this technique, you can actually get extra overtone notes." - http://shop.kalimbamagic.com/product.sc?productId=88

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The Umrhubhe is a South Africa (Xhosa) musical bow.

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Ukulele weeps by Jake Shimabukuro

[Musical instrument-Ukelele]

cromulantman | April 22, 2006

Video of Jake Shimabukuro in Central Park (New York City) performing George Harrison's composition "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"

V, W, X

Rara

[Musical instruments-klewons; vaksin; drum]

HaitianDiaspora | May 02, 2006
This is a form of music from Haiti called "rara." Some of the best rara bands are from Leogane. The music is mainly instrumental, consisting of drums, homemade horns, and "bambou."

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The bamboo horn shown in this video are called "vaksin". Here's an excerpt from an article about Haitian rara and Dominican gaga music:

..."As in Carnival, Rara musicians use the goatskin drums of Kongo/Petwo rites, the tchatcha, and scrapers to compose an ensemble pattern that rests on a kata foundation. Musicians also blow the vaksin, a set of bamboo trumpets of various size and pitch. The characteristic augmented fourth of the vaksin scale clashes with the tonality of the songs and lends Rara music a feeling of dissonant polytonality. This penchant for clashing dissonance comes through not only in music but also in brilliant, sequined, multicolored costumes, and in the juxtaposition of vulgarity, politics, and religiosity in song texts. The vaksin circulate melodic motifs in hocket style that recall some vocal styles of Central Africa. "

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Visit http://svr1.cg971.fr/lameca/dossiers/vodou_music/eng/p5.htm to read more of this very informative article about this traditional music.

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Recordings of Raras in Haiti

[Musical instruments: vaksins; klewons, guiras, drums, whistle]

ambreginny | February 01, 2009
World music

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Milt Jackson Live In The 1980s Pt. 2/3

[Featured musical instrument- vibraphone]

MindsiMedia | May 19, 2010
The late, great Milt Jackson playing live in the 1980s w/ a quartet. Milt is on vibes Jimmy Smith on drums, Milts cousin Alan Jackson plays bass and the on the piano is Art Hillary. In this clip they do Samba Blues and You Are My Sunshine

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Here's some information about the vibraphone from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibraphone

Percussion instrument
Other names Vibraharp, Vibe...
(Directly struck idiophone)
Inventor(s) Henry Schluter
Developed 1927

Related instruments
Marimba, Xylophone, Glockenspiel
The vibraphone, sometimes called the vibraharp or simply the vibes, is a musical instrument in the mallet subfamily of the percussion family.

It is similar in appearance to the xylophone, marimba, and glockenspiel although the vibraphone uses aluminum bars instead of the wooden bars of the first two instruments"....

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The Vuvuzela - Legendary Horn!

[Musical instruments: Vuvuzelas]

MattyMorgan31 | June 17, 2009

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Washboard Rhythm Kings 1933

[Featured musical instrument-washboard with cymbals]

harryoakley | February 25, 2009
Although the personnel is unknown, the pianist is probably Clarence Profit. Note the relaxed mood of the guys and the casual chatting although this was an official film session!

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Handmade Music! Phil's Washtub Bass

[Musical instrument-washboard bass]

Noswalogy | April 17, 2007
Phil jams on his first homemade washtub bass, then plays an encore.

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Xhalam playing by Abdulai Saine,Gambia 2002

[Musical instrument- xalam]

UlfJagfors | September 25, 2006
This recording was made July 2002 in Banjul and shows a Jali/Griot Xhalam lute player.The Xhalam is semi spike lute that has been used in West Africa for more than 1000 years....

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Here's a viewer's comment & the video uploader's response that provides more information about this instrument:

Klezfiddle1-"What an amazing instrument! It is virtually identical to the ancient Egyptian lute, as depicted on Theban banqueting scenes, from over 3000 years ago..."

UlfJagfors-"There is a direct link between the today existing West African lutes and the Ancient Egyptien lutes. Court bard Har-Moses lute (about 1500 B.C) which is on display in the Cairo Museum is in many ways very similar in construction. I have examine that lute on spot. There are a few differencies. The Egyptin lutes were mostly played with a wooden plectrum. They had no short thumb string as on nearly all Griot/Jali lutes. They also encompase frets made of a twisted rope around the neck."

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Xylophone solo medley Eksjö Student

[Featured Musical Instrument- Xylophone]

trumslagargossen | June 07, 2009
Xylofonmedley framför på studentavslutningen i Eksjö kyrka.

Xylophone medley perfomed at my examination.

1. WilliamTell
2. Super Mario
3. Can Can
4. When the Saints
5. The Entertainer
6.Cirkus Renz

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Eksjo is in Sweden.

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Y, Z

Elijah Gunydjurruwuy playing yirdaki in 2008 [Australia]

[Musical instruments: "yirdaki"-a type of "didjeridu"-and "bilma" (clapstick)

ididjaustralia | October 13, 2008 | 4:18
"I recorded Elijah Gunydjurruwuy a year ago, here he is again almost 12 months later in 2008! Do a search for "Gunydjurruwuy" on YouTube and you'll find about a dozen clips from previous recording sessions.,,

Here he plays solo yirdaki, and then as accompaniment to singing and dancing with his 3 brothers. All 4 boys are from Lake Evella, otherwise known as Gapuwiyak.

Manikaymirr (singer man) is David Djinipirdi Marrkula, who is also a deadly yirdaki player... I'll upload vids of him playing yirdaki soonish. Emmanuel and another brother, Nathan I think, provide entertaining dancing! 'Twas a fun day, always is when hanging out with Elijah :-) "

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Excerpt from http://www.didjeridu.com/wickedsticks/articles/guanlim2.htm : "In Australia, there are several categories of wooden pipe that are structurally and functionally distinguished from each other, though there are overlaps in certain categories.

To the north are the didjeridu and didjeridu-like forms. In the Central Australia region are much shorter, and functionally distinct, forms to the didjeridu.The yirdaki is merely a type of didjeridu, a form that is used by the Yolngu people of north-east Arnhem Land. The yirdaki is quite different to other types of didjeridu because of its particular acoustic properties, though this in itself shows variance according to regional preferences and prescribed law among Yolngu clan groups."...

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Magdolna Rúzsa - Felix Lajko - Még azt mondják (folk song)

[featured musical instrument- zither]

koldwave | August 26, 2006
Hungarian violin virtuoso Felix Lajko (plays zither here) and singer Magdolna Ruzsa performs a folk song interpretation.

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