Djembe
Instrumental Music – African Traditional Music
This is one typical African Traditional Music video using Djembe as the main instrument. The instruments used are Djembe, Balafon, Shereke and Dunum. Balafon is a ground-resonated xylophone associated mainly with people of West Africa. It can be a fixed-key or free-key type, usually having 17-21 keys tuned to tetratonic, pentatonic or heptatonic scale. The tuning depends upon the culture of the musician. It can produce 18 to 21 notes. Keys are made of Bene wood and suspended by leather straps above a wooden frame in a fixed-key balafon. Shereke is also a West African percussion instrument. It consists of a dried gourd with beads or cowries woven into a net covering the gourd. Usually it is vine gourd used for making the Shereke. The performance is by African Uniques Traditional Dance and M...
Djembe
Djembe is a drum instrument having its origin in the West Africa. It is a rope-tuned, skin-covered, goblet drum – a single headed drum which is played with bare hands. A Goblet drum has a goblet shaped body and is considered as the National Symbol of Egyptian Shaabi music. Djembe belongs to the Membranophone family of musical instruments. The name Djembe comes from two words “Dje” and “Be” meaning “Gather” and “Peace” respectively. Hence the folk saying “Everyone Gather together in peace” is used to represent the instrument. Construction The body of the instrument is carved of hardwood. The drumhead is made of untreated rawhide (animal skin that is not exposed to tanning). The skin is similar to parchment but lighter in colo...