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WHAT IS THIS INSTRUMENT?

Edward Powell - 4-7-2011 at 10:49 PM

http://www.mondomix.com/fr/show-video6211.htm

does anyone know what this instrument is, the sort of simple drone instrument the lead singer is plucking on? This band is from Comoro Islands in Indian ocean.

Thanks!!

I wonder could it be a descendant of an EKTAR?

adamgood - 4-8-2011 at 05:12 AM

wow that's really cool!!!

Edward Powell - 4-8-2011 at 07:44 AM

I think it is this

jejy voatavo

http://www.google.com/search?q=jejy+voatavo&hl=en&client=gm...

bibo10 - 4-9-2011 at 09:59 AM

very interesting...i guess africa's treasures are not limited to diamonds and ivory only!

abc123xyz - 4-13-2011 at 11:36 PM

Yeah that's a jejy voatavo. Some musicologists think that class of African instruments gave rise to the Indian tube-zither vīṇā.

Edward Powell - 4-15-2011 at 10:13 AM

Quote: Originally posted by abc123xyz  
Yeah that's a jejy voatavo. Some musicologists think that class of African instruments gave rise to the Indian tube-zither vīṇā.


you mean the belief if that the influence went from Africa to India and not the other way around??

Jack_Campin - 4-15-2011 at 03:07 PM

Seems to be an ancestor of the Brazilian berimbau.

Edward Powell - 4-15-2011 at 11:45 PM

Quote: Originally posted by Jack_Campin  
Seems to be an ancestor of the Brazilian berimbau.


I also noticed some similarity...

abc123xyz - 4-17-2011 at 12:57 AM

Quote: Originally posted by Edward Powell  

you mean the belief if that the influence went from Africa to India and not the other way around??

Yes, that's what I was told by an indologist friend in Italy. I don't know what the evidence is that it came from Africa to India and not the other way around, though.