Hugh Tracey started the business African Musical Instruments (AMI) in 1954, as a further way to preserve the continent’s musical heritage. ‘Little noise’ makes big impact .

Master percussionist Chief Baba Neil Clarke explained that African musical traditions — which included African instruments and aesthetics — significantly shaped American music and led to the ...

Interview - Mpho Molikeng, a multi-talented Mosotho musician has worked says over his 20-year music career, he has learnt how to play over 150 African musical instruments. Apart from that, he can ...

All musical instruments are subject to change: today’s Fender Stratocaster, for example, bears little resemblance, visually or sonically, to a C.F. Martin parlor guitar of even a century ago.

The first international exhibition devoted exclusively to African musical instruments as works of art will open with a free public concert and reception July 16 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.… ...

The instruments, which are now sometimes built with a guitar machinehead, are played using the thumb and forefinger of both hands to pick out both polyrhythmic patterns and solo runs. Koras are often ...

With metal African instruments, Joel Laviolette makes ‘musical rain’ Austinite also runs Rattletree School of Marimba and Mhumhi Records.

A young South African musician is winning accolades for her fusion of tribal rhythms from around the world. Courtney Gibson blends Western instruments, like electric guitar, with traditional ...

South African Jazz: Glossary article by AAJ Staff, published on April 19, 2004 at All About Jazz. Find more All About ... (or organ or accordion, and later a guitar), along with drumming on various ...