Calabash (percussion)
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Calabash (percussion)
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In African music, the calabash is a percussion instrument of the family of idiophones consisting of a half of a large calabash gourd, which is struck with the palms, fingers, wrist or objects to produce a variety of percussive sounds. In Tuareg music, the askalabo is a calabash "partly submerged in water, drummed to mimic camels' hooves". The calabash can also be used as a sound board: a finger piano can use a calabash for that purpose, and the gongoma is a similar instrument, using saw blades o
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African percussion instrument
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calabash_(percussion)
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2023-12-28T15:57:29Z
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