WorksheetsAfrican Instruments
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 2mins
It is a kind of African harp considered as the most striking string instrument because of its often exceptionally beautiful form and decoration.
Adungu
Kora
Nyanga
Kudu
It is a wooden xylophone or percussion idiophone which plays medolic tunes and usually has between 16 to 27 keys.
Balafon
Talking Drums
Djembe
Kalimba
It is a rope-tuned, skin-covered goblet drum played with bare hands.
Djembe
Uhadi
Rasps
Shekere
It is a percussion instrument. It is a sound box with metal keys attached to the top to give different notes.
Kalimba
Nyanga
Adungu
Kora
It is a long-necked harp lute with twenty-one leather or nylon strings.
Kora
Djembe
Uhadi
Rasps
It comes from the horn of the kudu antelope and is occasionally used in Jewish ceremonies similar to a shofar.
Kudu
Agogo
Slit Drum
Rasps
It is an African pan pipe.
Nyanga
Balafon
Djembe
Kudu
It is a gourd shaker with gourd pieces.
Shekere
Agogo
Adungu
Kora
These are drums whose pitch can be regulated depending upon how the player strikes the head of the drums and change its tension.
Talking Drums
Kalimba
Shekere
Adungu
It is a single string instrument traditionally made from wood and dried ground.
Kora
Balafon
Adungu
Uhadi
