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with beads or cowries woven into a net covering the gourd. There are multiple ways to produce sounds with the instrument. It can be shaken or hit against the hand. The instrument can also rest in the palm of one hand while other hand holds the handle of the gourd. A twisting wrist motion is used so
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The shekere is made from vine gourds that grow on the ground. The shape of the gourd determines the sound of the instrument. A shekere is made by drying the gourd for several months then removing the pulp and seeds. After it is scrubbed, skillful bead work is added as well as colour.
236:). The agbe is a gourd drum with cowrie shells and is usually strung with white cotton thread. The axatse is a small gourd, held by the neck and percussed between hand and leg. In Liberia, the net has a long "tail" through which the beads are manipulated. 160:, the instrument is common throughout West Africa and Latin America and is central to folk music traditions of many cultures as well as well as being utilized within some popular music styles. In Ghana the instrument is referred to as 312: 311: 146:
that the gourd moves while beads remain in place causing friction and sound different than when the instrument is simply shaken or struck. The shekere originated in
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sacred and popular music, it may be twisted, shaken or slapped producing a subtle variety of effects; musically, it is more flexible than
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Throughout the African continent there are similar gourd/bead or gourd/seed percussion instruments. Some are the
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in) almost entirely surrounded by a network of cords, to which many coloured beads are attached. Widely used in
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Index

Chekeré
Yemi Alade
Angélique Kidjo
Shekere (song)

Percussion instrument
Classification
Hornbostel–Sachs classification
Related instruments
Afoxé
Abwe
Madeleine Yayodele Nelson
Yoruba
percussion instrument
gourd
Yorubaland
West Africa
Yoruba people
axatse
Ghana
Guinea
Liberia
abwe
Afro-Cuban
maracas
afoxé
Shekere
media help
Crowther, Samuel Ajayi
A vocabulary of the Yoruba language

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