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Text Box: Musical Instruments   http://www.umsl.edu/~edujpolm/courses/edtec452/musicsite/intro.html        African musical instruments are divided into four categories:  idiophones, chordophones, and membranophones, and aerophones.   Idiophones-   Instruments that are sounded by striking tubes or keys.  They include rattles, bells, stamping tubes, the thumb piano, and xylophone.   Chordophones-  Stringed instruments that produce sound by plucking or strumming.  Examples of chordophones:  bow, zither, bowed/plucked lute, harp-lute, and lyre.   Membranophones-  Sound is created by stretching a membrane over an opening.  These instruments include all drums, such as the kettle drum, talking drum, and the water drum.   Aerophones-  Sounded by blowing air into the instrument.  Some examples of aerophones:  flute made of bamboo, ocarinas, panpipes, horns made of elephant tusks, and trumpets made of wood, sections of gourd, or metal tubes.                         Sound of Africa

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