Sherke

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...