Chordophones

Iron drums also have, as a function, to mark the rhythms and pauses of divinatory processes. The musical instruments accompanied the griots to sing or narrate the praises to their masters, tell stories or describe genealogies, were part of the teachings to the members of the community, participated in all kinds of ceremonies and served to send messages and communicate with both the world of the living and the ancestors and supernatural forces. As in the rest of the daily activities also in the elaboration of these instruments is manifested the aesthetic feeling of the African soul. Without attempting to manufacture art objects, this concept was unknown to Africans until the arrival of Europeans, they like to surround themselves with the beautiful. They don't know art by art and therefore artistic feeling, but they live, however, deeply aesthetic feeling. These instruments can be classified into the following categories: Aerophonos.- Instruments that work by blowing: whistles, flutes, horns, tubes, trumpets. CORDOPHONS.- String instruments, harps, liras. The sound is produced by the vibration of the rope.