The ngoni (also written ngɔni, n'goni, or nkoni) is a traditional West African string instrument. Its body is made of wood or calabash with dried animal...

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fusion, [and] globo electro." Avant-garde music Experimental music Ngoni (instrument) Beats Antique A dozen questions with Evan Fraser of Dirtwire, bozemandailychronicle...

garaya (Hausa), koni, konting (Mandinka), molo (Songhay/Zarma), ndere, ngoni (Bambara), and tidinit (Hassaniyya and Berber). In Wolof, a person who plays...

The kora (Manding languages: ߞߐߙߊ kɔra) is a stringed instrument used extensively in West Africa. A kora typically has 21 strings, which are played by...

Bassekou Kouyate (born 1966) is a musician from Mali. His band is known as Ngoni ba. He was born into the Kouyate family in Garana, Barouéli Cercle, 60 kilometres...

(Southern Africa) Msondo (Tanzania) Ndzendze (Comoros) Ndzumara (Comoros) Ngoni (West Africa) Nyatiti (Kenya) Nyele (Zambia) Obokano (Kenya) Omubanda (Uganda)...

likely that the instrument derives from similar skin-covered lutes of the region around Mali or other areas of the Sahel (such as the ngoni, xalam, or hoddu)...

giving the instrument a damper tone that emitted a "thudding" sound similar to the balafon. The balafon, kora (lute-harp), and the ngoni (the ancestor...

(the large balafon of her region, has been paired with the ngoni (instrument) (the instrument favored by Bambara griots). Originally released in 1998 on...

family in Kita, Mali. From a young age, he learned to play the ngoni, a stringed instrument related to the American banjo. In addition, Cheick has learned...

different types of wind instrument like flutes and trumpets. Additionally, string instruments are also used, with the lute-like oud and Ngoni serving as musical...

skilled instrumentalists. Their instruments include stringed instruments like the kora, the khalam (or xalam), the ngoni, the kontigi, and the goje (or...

wooden-bodied lutes that are exclusive to the griots (for example, the Mande ngoni, the Wolof xalam, the Fula hoddu, and the Soninke gambare) have a short...

horns, and a western drum kit alongside Mande music using kora, balafon, ngoni, talking drums, Islamic-style, Mande hunter co-fraternity song, and griot...

Senegambia, and the ubaw-akwala of the Igbo. Similar instruments include the xalam of Senegal and the ngoni of the Wassoulou region that includes parts of Mali...

secondary instruments throughout his career. After returning from a musical and cultural journey through Africa, he often played the donso ngoni, a harp-lute...

A lute (/ljuːt/ or /luːt/) is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening...

female vocalists and dance-oriented rhythms. The ngoni lute is the most popular traditional instrument. Most of the best-known Maninka musicians are from...

making the West African instruments like the Ṣẹ̀kẹ̀rẹ̀, a Yoruba instrument similar to a maraca, kora (a harp-lute), xalam/ngoni (a lute) and the goje (a...

(1952-04-28) 28 April 1952 (age 72) Munich, West Germany Genres Jazz, rock, fusion, world music Instrument(s) Guitar, vocals, ngoni Website lenistern.com...

praise noble families. The griot in a sitting position, would play the ngoni or commonly known by the Tuareg as "tehardent". The word ‘Takamba’ has its...

to instruments whose use is reserved for members of the griot caste, such as the balafon, kora, and ngoni. (The djembe is not a griot instrument.) Anyone...

wife, Sandra, and also features Leni Stern on an African string instrument known as a ngoni. Stern had some new songs in various stages, but opted not to...

lent his voice and played the kamele n'goni (a six-stringed West African instrument similar to a banjo) while Yves Wernert was the producer and keyboardist...

kingdom. These are Tumbuka Chewa, Tumbuka Senga, Tumbuka Mlowoka, and Tumbuka Ngoni. In reality and culturally they are all Tumbuka. There are also many smaller...

list of instruments by Hornbostel–Sachs number, covering those instruments that are classified under 321.33 under that system. These instruments are also...

unique sound. This instrument is a cross between the kora and the Donso Ngoni, expanding the tonality and mood of the African musical sonic. Jobarteh's...

Mbaye succeeded in transposing the African traditional sounds of khalam (Ngoni) and kora onto his electric Fender Stratocaster. Carlos Santana and Mbaye...

music, several instruments from there have been designed to more easily generate cross-rhythms. Instruments such as the kora, donso ngoni, and mbira organize...