String instruments
Ngoni - Donso ngoni string instrument
Ngoni
The ngoni is a typically African string instrument from Mali formed of a resonant shell covered with a goatskin (or a wooden cover), with a wooden handle. The strings, made of nylon, are attached with rings, parallel to the handle which follows the same line as the shell.
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- Donso ngoni
- Kamalengoni
The donso ngoni (“hunter’s instrument”), with four to six strings tuned to a pentatonic scale with the musician’s voice, is an African harp-lute cousin of the kora.