The top 20+ nigerian musical instruments and sounds they produce

The top 20+ nigerian musical instruments and sounds they produce

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1 10 Instruments You Didn’t Know Were From Africa – Culture Trip

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  • Author: theculturetrip.com
  • Published: 02/14/2022
  • Review: 4.94 (865 vote)
  • Summary: · Africa is music, and her musical instruments are used all over the world to produce sounds that are unique to the continent
  • Detail: https://theculturetrip.com/africa/nigeria/articles/10-instruments-you-didnt-know-were-from-africa/

2 [PDF] Indigenous musical instruments – Nnamdi Azikiwe University Journals

  • Author: journals.unizik.edu.ng
  • Published: 06/18/2022
  • Review: 4.72 (279 vote)
  • Summary: Nigerian musical instruments communicate in languages which … produce sound by the vibration of the entire bodies), Chordophones. (String instruments) and 
  • Detail: https://journals.unizik.edu.ng/index.php/ajill/article/download/157/139/300

3 A Look At Musical Instruments From Africa – The Guardian Nigeria

  • Author: guardian.ng
  • Published: 08/19/2022
  • Review: 4.51 (427 vote)
  • Summary: · The marimba is a set of wooden bars struck with mallets to produce notes. The keys are arranged similarly to a piano’s. Developed in Zimbabwe, 
  • Detail: https://guardian.ng/life/a-look-at-musical-instruments-from-africa/

4 Musical Instruments | CK-12 Foundation

  • Author: flexbooks.ck12.org
  • Published: 05/21/2022
  • Review: 4.33 (257 vote)
  • Summary: · How musical instruments make sounds, music and change pitch. … have a way of changing the frequency of the sound waves they produce
  • Detail: https://flexbooks.ck12.org/cbook/ck-12-middle-school-physical-science-flexbook-2.0/section/17.8/primary/lesson/musical-instruments-ms-ps/

5 Indigenous Musical Instruments Across Major Tribes in Nigeria

  • Author: refinedng.com
  • Published: 04/23/2022
  • Review: 4.11 (526 vote)
  • Summary: · Smaller sixes of the drum produce sharper pitches while the larger ones produce deep bass tones. Its playing technique is quite simple and 
  • Detail: https://refinedng.com/indigenous-musical-instruments-across-major-tribes-in-nigeria/

6 Instrument Classification | Mary K. Oyer African Music Archive

  • Author: goshen.edu
  • Published: 12/27/2021
  • Review: 3.92 (416 vote)
  • Summary: Instruments are classified using 5 different categories depending on the manner in which the instrument creates the sound: Idiophones, Membranophones, 
  • Detail: https://www.goshen.edu/academics/music/mary-k-oyer-african-music-archive/instrument-classification/

7 Musical returns and revivals – [Re:]Entanglements

  • Author: re-entanglements.net
  • Published: 05/29/2022
  • Review: 3.62 (431 vote)
  • Summary: · Nigerian ethnomusicologist Ikenna Onwuegbuna researches and reworks historical sound recordings of Igbo music recorded by N. W. Thomas in 
  • Detail: https://re-entanglements.net/musical-returns/

8 Nigerian Musical Instruments – ppt download

  • Author: slideplayer.com
  • Published: 07/16/2022
  • Review: 3.59 (559 vote)
  • Summary: It is played with one end of the string in the mouth which acts as resonator, a cane or metal beater used to produce sound, and a short stick of soft wood used 
  • Detail: https://slideplayer.com/slide/14412057/

9 Traditional music instruments in Nigeria – Vanguard News

  • Author: vanguardngr.com
  • Published: 05/10/2022
  • Review: 3.33 (505 vote)
  • Summary: · It is the art of producing tones or sounds in harmonious succession. Music is a part of the Nigerian culture and that of Africa as a whole
  • Detail: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/04/traditional-music-instruments-in-nigeria/

10 Musical Instrument Glossary E | World Music Central

  • Author: worldmusiccentral.org
  • Published: 04/05/2022
  • Review: 3.18 (277 vote)
  • Summary: Sandra Vabarna of Trad.Attack! playing the Estonian bagpipe Eesti torupill – Estonian bagpipe. Edakka – An hourglass shaped drum beaten with one stick from 
  • Detail: https://worldmusiccentral.org/world-music-resources/glossaries/musical-instrument-glossary/musical-instrument-glossary-e/

11 [PDF] Traditional Musical Instruments – UNI ScholarWorks

  • Author: scholarworks.uni.edu
  • Published: 03/08/2022
  • Review: 2.94 (118 vote)
  • Summary: The first category of traditional Nigerian musical instruments is the Chordophones. Chordophones are often referred to as string instruments. They make a sound 
  • Detail: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi%3Freferer%3D%26httpsredir%3D1%26article%3D1235%26context%3Doermaterials

12 Documenting musical instruments of Northern Nigerian

  • Author: newtelegraphng.com
  • Published: 05/03/2022
  • Review: 2.89 (177 vote)
  • Summary: · These are instruments made to produce sounds through in vibration of strings. These are more common in the area of discussion than in any other 
  • Detail: https://www.newtelegraphng.com/documenting-musical-instruments-of-northern-nigerian/

13 African music – Musical instruments – Encyclopedia Britannica

  • Author: britannica.com
  • Published: 09/09/2022
  • Review: 2.77 (53 vote)
  • Summary: Struck and concussion-sounded idiophones are found everywhere. These include stone clappers and multiple rock gongs (in Nigeria); wooden clappers and percussion 
  • Detail: https://www.britannica.com/art/African-music/Musical-instruments

14 9 Traditional African Music Instruments And Their Origin

  • Author: africanvibes.com
  • Published: 02/23/2022
  • Review: 2.5 (194 vote)
  • Summary: · The Udu is one of the African music instruments with relaxing sounds. It is popular among the Igbo tribe that occupies a region in southeastern 
  • Detail: https://africanvibes.com/8-traditional-african-music-instruments-and-their-origin/

15 Nigerian Art Music – 1. Introduction – IFRA-Nigeria – OpenEdition Books

  • Author: books.openedition.org
  • Published: 02/19/2022
  • Review: 2.59 (122 vote)
  • Summary: Prominent musical instruments in Igbo land include ngedegwu, (a xylophone made of wooden planks laid on a banana tree resonator), ekwe (a wooden, slit drum), 
  • Detail: https://books.openedition.org/ifra/608%3Flang%3Den

16 African musical instruments

  • Author: contemporary-african-art.com
  • Published: 07/04/2022
  • Review: 2.35 (124 vote)
  • Summary: Aerophones; any class of musical instruments in which a vibrating mass of air produces the initial sound including bull roarers and sirens. They are found in 
  • Detail: https://www.contemporary-african-art.com/african-musical-instruments.html

17 Meaning and Examples of Nigeria Local Musical Instruments

  • Author: classbasic.com
  • Published: 05/18/2022
  • Review: 2.29 (171 vote)
  • Summary: 1. Shaking – Shekere · 2. Hitting – Agogo, gangan, · 3. Blowing – Opi, oja, horn, kakaki, etc. · 4. Beating – Banjo, tabla baya, bata drum (beating and hitting), 
  • Detail: https://classbasic.com/meaning-and-examples-of-nigeria-local-musical-instruments-classification-of-nigerian-musical-instruments-uses-of-musical-instruments-primary-4-basic-4-term-3-week-4-cultural-and-creative-arts/

18 MUSICAL INSTRUMENT AND SOUNDS – Edu Delight Tutors

  • Author: edudelighttutors.com
  • Published: 02/20/2022
  • Review: 2.26 (175 vote)
  • Summary: · Membranophonic: these set of instruments are made of skin animal and produce sound through vibration of the skin when beaten, either with bare 
  • Detail: https://edudelighttutors.com/2020/09/05/dances-in-the-locality/

19 Traditional/Local Musical Instruments

  • Author: ktb.gov.tr
  • Published: 11/09/2021
  • Review: 2.03 (56 vote)
  • Summary: The sound from these instruments is produced by the vibration of the strings. These may be classified into two groups: Bowed stringed instruments: For example: 
  • Detail: https://www.ktb.gov.tr/EN-98659/traditionallocal-musical-instruments.html

20 [PDF] Ofuani | Nigerian Musical Instrument Production Industry

  • Author: ajol.info
  • Published: 08/03/2022
  • Review: 1.95 (196 vote)
  • Summary: through which the Nigerian Musical Instrument Production. Industry (NMIPI) contributes to the … industry’s worth as a sector which produces employment.”
  • Detail: https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ujah/article/view/161633/151190

21 CCA SECOND TERM PRIMARY 4 LESSON NOTES / SCHEME OF

  • Author: ultimosedusupport.com
  • Published: 06/04/2022
  • Review: 1.84 (133 vote)
  • Summary: Foreign/ western musical instruments: these are objects that are used by foreigners to produce their own music which are brought into the Nigerian music as 
  • Detail: https://ultimosedusupport.com/cca-second-term-primary-4-lesson-notes-scheme-of-work/

22 Musical Instruments | The African Imagination in Music

  • Author: academic.oup.com
  • Published: 12/02/2021
  • Review: 1.89 (137 vote)
  • Summary: Rattles, too, come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and designs. Most common is a calabash or shell filled with seeds, stones, or sand to produce a buzzing sound
  • Detail: https://academic.oup.com/book/12471/chapter/162868537

23 The Local and the Global: Traditional Musical Instruments and … – jstor

  • Author: jstor.org
  • Published: 10/20/2021
  • Review: 1.62 (81 vote)
  • Summary: or the processes of deidentification that result from this, both produce puzzles … musical instruments, styles, sounds and musical conceptions is possible 
  • Detail: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41692769

24 Nigerian musical… Cultural and Creative Arts – Primary 4 – Twinkl

  • Author: twinkl.cz
  • Published: 08/06/2022
  • Review: 1.5 (144 vote)
  • Summary: Twinkl resources aligned to the Nigerian curriculum that focus on the topic ‘Nigerian musical instruments and sounds they produce’
  • Detail: https://www.twinkl.cz/resources/cultural-and-creative-arts-primary-4-nigeria-teaching-resources/performing-arts-and-entertainment-cultural-and-creative-arts-primary-4-nigeria-teaching-resources/nigerian-musical-instruments-and-sounds-they-produce-performing-arts-and-entertainment-cultural-and-creative-arts-primary-4-nigeria-teaching-resources

25 Magic of the Ogene: The Sound from Eastern Nigeria

  • Author: ibiene.com
  • Published: 04/19/2022
  • Review: 1.39 (183 vote)
  • Summary: · Musical instruments come in different shapes, forms, sizes and the kind of sounds they produce. People interprete the sound of music 
  • Detail: https://ibiene.com/entertainment/magic-of-the-ogene-the-sound-from-eastern-nigeria/

26 [PDF] igbo musical instruments: socio- cultural tools for sustainable

  • Author: nigerianjournalsonline.com
  • Published: 11/09/2021
  • Review: 1.32 (200 vote)
  • Summary: Chordophones are musical instruments which produce sound by the vibration of string or strings attached to their bodies. They
  • Detail: https://www.nigerianjournalsonline.com/index.php/jonmed/article/download/524/515