Traditional music - Gambia

Traditional Gambian instruments and music: the balaphone resembles the western xylophone. But the Gambian balaphone is made up of 20 rectangular wooden slats. The Kora uses a large calabash cut in half and covered with cow skin as a resonator, and has a notched bridge like a lute or guitar. A djembe also known as djimbe, jembe, jenbe, yembe or sanbanyi in Susu; is a skin covered drum shaped like a large goblet and is meant to be played with bare hands.

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