Playing and discovering African Ngoni with Lies Beijerinck & Andrea Ferroni

👇 👇 👇 MORE INFO 👇 👇 👇 Lies Beijerinck is also known as Didge Mama of Holland. She is a professional didgeridoo player and teacher and started playing the ngoni in the last few years. The instrument in this video was made by Frank Heinkel.
I had the pleasure to join the video to show a few acoustics bases about the sound production and amplification.

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The ngoni (also written ngɔni, n'goni, or nkoni) is a string instrument, the traditional guitar of Mali. Its body is made of wood or calabash with dried animal (often goat) skinhead stretched over it. The ngoni, which can produce fast melodies, appears to be closely related to the akonting and the xalam. This is called a jeli ngoni as it is played by griots at celebrations and special occasions in traditional songs called fasas in Mandingo. Another larger type, believed to have originated among the donso (a hunter and storyteller caste of the Wassoulou cultural region) is called the donso ngoni. This is still largely reserved for ceremonial purposes. The donso ngoni, or "hunter's harp," has six strings. It is often accompanied by singing along with the karagnan, a serrated metal tube scraped with a metal stick. The donso ngoni was mentioned by Richard Jobson in the 1620s, describing it as the most commonly used instrument in the Gambia. He described it as an instrument with a great gourd for a belly at the bottom of a long neck with six strings.

The ngoni is known to have existed since at least 1352, when Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan traveler reported seeing one in the court of Mansa Musa. It is believed to have evolved into the banjo in North America after enslaved Mandé were brought there. Battuta also reported the balafon. A book written by English musician Ramon Goose about the ngoni describes its known history, tunings, and a beginner's guide to playing the instrument.

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