Traditional Instruments

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Igbo Musical Instruments: A Lost Art – Ugbo Akwara

Traditional Igbo music is one of the oldest and most sophisticated indigenous musical cultures in West Africa. Rooted in rhythm, storytelling, spirituality, and communal performance, Igbo music once relied on a wide variety of instruments, drums, rattles, string instruments, horns, and wooden idiophones to transmit memory and identity from one generation to the next. Among…

Igbo Musical Instruments : A Lost Art : Enenke

Sound classification Enenke is an aerophone, which means they produce sound primarily through the vibration of a column of air. These instruments include trumpet, opi okike ( opi ike) , and even oja. How it is made Enenke is produced from the horn of a wild animal called “ene” (An antelope). Enenke is used…