Biology:Calabash (percussion)
 Percussionist (Mamadou Sarr) playing the Calabash with the bare hand technique | |
| Percussion instrument | |
|---|---|
| Classification | percussion |
| Hornbostel–Sachs classification | 111.3 |
In African music, the calabash is a percussion instrument of the family of idiophones consisting of a half of a large calabash gourd, which is struck with the palms, fingers, wrist or objects to produce a variety of percussive sounds.[1]
In Tuareg music, the askalabo[2] is a calabash "partly submerged in water, drummed to mimic camels' hooves".[3]
The calabash can also be used as a sound board: a finger piano (a flat board with a bridge on which prongs are fastened, that are then played with the fingers) can use a calabash for that purpose,[1] and the gongoma is a similar instrument, using saw blades on a bridge affixed over the calabash—the blades are plucked with the fingers, while the player taps the calabash with their other hand.[4]
A calabash can also be used as a resonator, in the case of the umakhweyane, a middle-braced calabash bow.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Nzewi, Odyke; Nzewi, Meki (2007). A Contemporary Study of Musical Arts: Theory and practice of modern African classical drum music. A Contemporary Study of Musical Arts: Informed by African Indigenous Knowledge Systems. 5. African Minds. pp. 1, 4. ISBN 9781920051686. https://books.google.com/books?id=IYR4wHurL5YC&pg=PA1.
- ↑ Peek, Philip M.; Yankah, Kwesi, eds (2004). African Folklore: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. ISBN 9781135948726. https://books.google.com/books?id=Sd6SAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT1309.
- ↑ Davies, Sam (1 August 2019). "'My father said I should be looking after the cows': the first female Tuareg guitarist". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/aug/01/fatou-seidi-ghali-the-worlds-first-female-tuareg-guitarist. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
- ↑ Kalani; Camara, Ryan M.. World Rhythms! Arts Program presents West African Drum & Dance: A Yankadi-Macrou Celebration. Alfred Music. p. 38. ISBN 9781457422331. https://books.google.com/books?id=xk4GTQ3BCzsC&pg=PA38.
- ↑ Dargie, Dave (2007). "Umakhweyane’: A Musical Bow and Its Contribution to Zulu Music". African Music 8 (1): 60-81. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30249999.
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