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Djembe

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Origin: West Africa. Use: A rope-tuned skin-covered goblet drum played with bare hands.

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Balafon

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Origin: West Africa. Use: A kind of wooden xylophone or percussion idiophone which plays melodic tunes with wooden mallets.

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Kora

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Origin: West Africa, particularly Gambia and Senegal. Use: A string instrument with 21 strings that's played like a harp.

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Mbira

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Origin: Zimbabwe. Use: An idiophone with a set of metal keys mounted on a wooden soundboard, played by plucking with thumbs.

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Udu

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Origin: Nigeria. Use: A type of drum that has a water-drop sound, played by hand by tapping and creating a suction effect with the hole.

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Talking Drum

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Origin: West Africa. Use: An hourglass-shaped drum which pitch can be regulated to mimic the tone of human speech.

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Shekere

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Origin: West Africa. Use: A percussion instrument made from a dried gourd with beads woven into a net covering the gourd.

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Kalimba

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Origin: Southeast Africa. Use: A type of Mbira, also known as a thumb piano, it's played by plucking the tines with the thumbs.

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Nyatiti

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Origin: Kenya, particularly among the Luo people. Use: An 8-string lyre played to accompany singing.

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Valiha

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Origin: Madagascar. Use: A tube zither made from a species of local bamboo, it's played by plucking strings arranged around the tube.

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