17-note mahogany kalimba - Custom engraving

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Percussion, 17-note kalimba

Percussion instruments are present in almost every culture in the world. They have ceremonial, sacred and symbolic associations.

The first type of percussion instrument was simply an object struck to produce a sound. Drums evolved from this and are known to have existed since around 6,000 BC. They have been used by all the world's great civilizations.

Percussion instruments such as the 17-note kalimba have strong ceremonial, sacred or symbolic associations almost everywhere. Some drums symbolize and protect tribal royalty in much of Africa. They were also used to transmit messages over long distances.

They also played a major role in medieval and Renaissance Europe. The snare drum and its relatives were used in the infantry to send coded instructions to soldiers.

Drumming is accessible to everyone and requires no musical training. You don't need a specialized or expensive instrument either - anything goes.

This family of instruments includes: Ocean drum, bongos, djembes, gong, pandeiros (tambourines), 17-note kalimbas (thumb pianos), dholak, pancake and monkey drums, vibratone, glockenspiel, buffalo drum.

But also: drums, bodhran, cymbals, maracas, rain sticks, woodblocks, agogo, castanets, triangle, bells, claves, digital cymbals, rhythm thang, shakers, hammer handles, broom handles, and so on. All of these can be used for percussion groups.

Anything and everything can be used for a hand drum, and you can improvise with practically anything.

A percussion instrument is any musical instrument belonging to one of two groups: idiophones and membranophones. Idiophones are instruments whose own substance vibrates to produce sound (as opposed to the strings of a guitar or the air column of a flute); bells, clappers and rattles are examples.

This 17-note kalimba is an idiophone.

Membranophones produce sound by the vibration of a stretched membrane; drums are the main examples. The term "percussion instrument" refers to the fact that most idiophones and membranophones produce sound by being struck, although other playing methods include rubbing, shaking, pinching and scraping.

Idiophones form a diverse and disparate group. Concussion instruments, consisting of two similar elements struck together, include clappers, concussion stones, castanets and cymbals.

Percussion idiophones, instruments struck by a non-sounding striker, form a vast subgroup, including simple percussion triangles and sticks, percussion beams such as the semantic, percussion discs and plates, single or in sets, xylophones, lithophones (sound stones) and metallophones (sets of tuned metal bars), percussion tubes, such as stamping tubes, slit drums and tubular chimes, and percussion vessels.

 

Shaken idiophones, or rattles, include containers filled with rattle, basketry and hollow-ring materials, as well as pellet-shaped bells; wire rattles, such as leg rattles or dancers' anklets; stick rattles, including the sistrum, etc.

 

Other categories include scraped idiophones, such as scrapers and rattles; split idiophones made from hollow split cane, including Southeast Asian "tuning fork" idiophones and chopsticks; pinched idiophones, such as the mbira jaw harp music box; friction idiophones, including friction sticks, single or combined, and musical glasses.

17-note mahogany Kalilmba

This wood is highly regarded for the design of your instruments and percussion instruments, such as this 17-note kalimba, as it is both strong and flexible. Mahogany is one of many tropical hardwood trees, and belongs to the Meliaceae family.

One of these is Swietenia mahagoni, native to tropical America.

It's a large evergreen tree whose wood turns reddish-brown when mature. The leaflets of each large leaf are arranged like a feather, but there is no terminal leaflet. The small white flowers are borne in clusters, and the fruit is a five-parted woody capsule containing square, winged seeds.

Most commercial mahogany today comes from other genera in the family, such as African Khaya and Entandophragma. Lauan or Philippine mahogany (Shorea species), in the Dipterocarpaceae family, is popular for furniture and panelling.

Learn to play "Senorita" by Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello on the 17-note kalimba with our tutorial !