Calabash (percussion)
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 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
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
- ^ ISBN 9781920051686.
- ISBN 9781135948726.
- ^ Davies, Sam (1 August 2019). "'My father said I should be looking after the cows': the first female Tuareg guitarist". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
- ISBN 9781457422331.
- ^ Dargie, Dave (2007). "Umakhweyane': A Musical Bow and Its Contribution to Zulu Music". African Music. 8 (1): 60–81 – via JSTOR.
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