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Molo (lute)
Molo is the name given to a lute by the Hausa people of Niger and northern Nigeria and the Songhay people of Niger. In Ghana, it is called Mɔɣlo in Dagbanli. ''Molo'' is the name used for a specific type of African lute, one that has a boat-shaped body or soundbox, carved from wood and a round dowel for a neck. The soundbox has an open top, covered by duiker hide or goatskin. ''Molo'' has also has become a generalized term for "any plucked string instrument" among the Hauser people in Nigeria. As the name of a specific type of lute among the Hauser, the instrument is one of at least seven different Hausa lutes, also including the round bodied garaya (2-string. wood body), gurmi (3-string gourd bodied), ''gurumi'' (2-sting calabash bodied), the ''komo'' (2-sting gourd body), the ''kwamsa'' (or ''komsa'', 2-string, gourd bodied) and the '' kontigi''. Relationship to the banjo The instrument found some fame when it identified by Lorenzo Dow Turner as possibly being the i ...
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Lorenzo Dow Turner
Lorenzo Dow Turner (August 21, 1890 – February 10, 1972) was an African-American academic and linguist who did seminal research on the Gullah language of the Low Country of coastal South Carolina and Georgia. His studies included recordings of Gullah speakers in the 1930s. As head of the English departments at Howard University and Fisk University for a combined total of nearly 30 years, he strongly influenced their programs. He created the African Studies curriculum at Fisk, was chair of the African Studies Program at Roosevelt University, and in the early 1960s, cofounded a training program for Peace Corps volunteers going to Africa. Early life Born in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, on October 21, 1890, Turner was the youngest of four sons of Rooks Turner and Elizabeth Freeman. His father completed his master's degree at Howard University, although he had not begun first grade until he was twenty-one years old. His mother gained the education allowed to black women at the tim ...
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Nigerian Musical Instruments
The music of Nigeria includes many kinds of folk and popular music. Little of the country's music history prior to European contact has been preserved, although bronze carvings dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries have been found depicting musicians and their instruments. The country's most internationally renowned genres are Indigenous, Apala, Aurrebbe music, Rara music, Were music, Ogene, Fuji, Jùjú, Afrobeat, Afrobeats, Igbo highlife, Afro-juju, Waka, Igbo rap, Gospel, Nigerian pop and Yo-pop. Styles of folk music are related to the over 250 ethnic groups in the country, each with their own techniques, instruments, and songs. The largest ethnic groups are the Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba. Traditional music from Nigeria and throughout Africa is often functional; in other words, it is performed to mark a ritual such as the wedding or funeral and not to achieve artistic goals. Although some Nigerians, especially children and the elderly, play instruments for their ...
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Drumhead Lutes
A drumhead or drum skin is a membrane stretched over one or both of the open ends of a drum. The drumhead is struck with sticks, mallets, or hands, so that it vibrates and the sound resonates through the drum. Additionally outside of percussion instruments, drumheads are also used on some string instruments, most notably the banjo. History Originally, drumheads were made from animal hide and were first used in early human history, long before records began. The term ''drumhead'' is first attested in English in 1580, in the writings of the soldier Thomas Churchyard, who mentioned how "Dice plaie began ... on the toppe of Drommes heddes". In 1956, Chick Evans invented the plastic drumhead. Plastic drumheads made from polyester are cheaper, more durable, and less sensitive to weather than animal skin. In 1957, Remo Belli and Sam Muchnick together developed a polymer head (also known as Mylar) leading to the development of the Remo drumhead company. Despite the benefits of p ...
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Spike Lutes
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Hausa Animism
Hausa animism, Maguzanci or Bori is a pre-Islamic traditional religion of the Hausa people of West Africa that involves magic and spirit possession. While only a part of the Hausa people (mostly within urban elites) converted to Islam before the end of the 18th century, most of the adherents of the religion did the same between the jihad started by the Islamic reformer Usman dan Fodio around 1800 and the middle of the 20th century, while a small minority converted to Christianity. Religious affiliation to this traditional religion is virtually nonexistent at the beginning of the 21st century; however, Hausa animism and Islam among Hausa people have coexisted for centuries, and some practices related to animism carry on locally. When discussing "bori", there is a distinction to be made between the beliefs of the Maguzawa Hausa people, Manguzawa (which consist of pagan or heavily pagan influenced Hausa religion), the general belief in spirits and animism that persists even among M ...
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Kontigi
A kontigi or kuntigi is a one-stringed African lute played by the Hausa, Songhai and Djerma. A 3-string version ''teharden'' is used among the Tamashek. The instrument is used in Hausa music, primarily in northern Nigeria and Niger, and among Hausa minorities in Benin, Ghana, Burkina Faso and Cameroon. It is also found among Islamized peoples throughout West Africa (see Xalam). The best-known player of the kontigi is Dan Maraya. Characteristics The instrument uses a calabash gourd as the body of the instrument, covered by skin, with a stick for a neck. Modern instrument have had the gourd replaced by a can, such as a large sardine can. The neck on the Kontigi has "metal disk surrounded by small rings" which make noise as the instrument is moved or played. The tone is high pitched. Performance The instrument is used to perform "praise songs" by professional musicians or by Griots in Nigeria. A well-known musician who used the instrument was Dan Maraya, who recorded album ...
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Molo Or Xalam, Lute, Back
Molo may refer to: People * Molo (ethnic group) * Molo of Rhodes, rhetorical teacher of Cicero and Julius Caesar * Molo (satrap of Media) (died 220 BC), a general and satrap of the Seleucid king Antiochus the Great * Molo (footballer) (born 1985), real name, Manuel Jesús Casas García, Spanish footballer known as Molo * Francis Molo (born 1994), New Zealand-Australian Rugby League player Places * Molo (monument), an historic quayside in Venice, Italy * Molo (Genoa), a neighbourhood in the old town of Genoa * Molo, Iloilo City, a district in Iloilo City, Philippines * Molo, Kenya Other * Molo (group), shortened name of Molotov Movement, a hip hop / rap collective in Denmark * OS X Mountain Lion or MoLo * Mobile local search or MoLo * ''Molo'' (butterfly), a genus of butterflies in the grass skipper family * molo (design company), a Canadian multidisciplinary design studio * molo, an African lute See also * Mollo (other) * Pancit Molo Pancit Molo (also Molo ...
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Gurmi (lute)
The gurmi is a two or three-stringed lute of the Hausa people of northern Nigeria. May also be called ''gurumi'' or ''kumbo''. In looking at the two-finger playing style used by musicians who play the gumbri, researchers have listed it as a possible relative to the banjo. Researchers have talked about the ''gurmi'' and ''gurumi'' as if these are two different but similar instruments. The instrument is also played by Toubou people and "other peoples of Niger and northern Nigeria." Details It has a soundbox made from a half calabash or gourd, the opening covered with hide for a soundboard. The neck pierces the calabash, its end poking out the bottom of the instrument. Strings are secured to the stump of stick at the bottom and run across a bridge on the hide soundboard to the neck. The strings are secured to the neck by tying them to tuning rings, separate strings or bands tied around the neck. While a member of the xalam family of instruments, the gurmi is specific to the Hausa p ...
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Garaya (lute)
The garaya or komo is an oval-bodied, two-string spike lute from Niger and Northern Nigeria. Details Two different versions of the ''garaya'' exist in Nigeria. The Fulani people and Hausa people both have their own version. Hausa ''garaya'' A garaya is around 50 centimeters long, plucked with a plectrum made from stiffened cowhide or hippopotamus hide. It is used by the Hausa people to play traditional music. The instrument has a wooden soundbox in the shape of an oval, covered with goatskin or duiker-skin and a neck that goes through both sides of the bowl. From the butt, the strings run across the bowl, and the loose ends are tied to tuning strings (which are wrapped around the neck as anchor points). The lute may have a metal jingle attached to the handle. A larger version of the instrument is called the ''babbar garaya'' or ''komo''.{{cite book , last=Gourlay , first=K. A. , url=https://archive.org/details/grovedictionaryo0002unse_h8z7/ , title=The New Grove Dictionary of ...
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