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[*] posted on 4-7-2011 at 10:49 PM
WHAT IS THIS INSTRUMENT?

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?



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[*] posted on 4-8-2011 at 05:12 AM


wow that's really cool!!!
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[*] posted on 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...




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[*] posted on 4-9-2011 at 09:59 AM


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



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[*] posted on 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.
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[*] posted on 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??



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[*] posted on 4-15-2011 at 03:07 PM


Seems to be an ancestor of the Brazilian berimbau.



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[*] posted on 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...



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[*] posted on 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.
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