In traditional African culture, music has ritual, social and ceremonial functions along with some solely recreational functions. Musical activities are highly ritualized and are considered the invisible world with the visible world to combine. Melodies are generally organized within a scale of four, five, six or seven tones. Musical instruments in Africa take on sculptural forms, which is holy, are complex, simple, humorous and serious, or a combination of all. Regardless ofwhether these instruments are pearls, carved, painted or decorated with skins, they send messages about religious beliefs, artistic styles and entertainment practices of the people who made them.
Percussion instruments are very popular musical instruments in Africa. Musical Instruments from Sub-Saharan Africa comprises a variety of resonant solids such as stamping tubes, the mbira (thumb piano), and the xylophone. Mbira is one of the most melodic instruments inAfrica. The mbira is used in different ways by different cultures and also come in different forms in different cultures. Mbira can be used for entertainment purposes or for religious ceremonies. Friction sticks, bells, rattles, maracas, cymbals, and Sansa are very popular percussion instruments.
Among the popular African instruments, drums are an important tool. There are various parchment-like timpani drums, cylindrical drums, semi cylindrical drums,Goblet drums, barrel-shaped drums, drums, and hourglass with variable voltage heads. Many wind instruments are built horns, tusks, shells or wood. Among the wind instruments are flutes of millet, reed, bamboo, or the heads of animal horns, and gourds. Pan flute, ocarina, whistle, oboe, horns, which are made from ivory or animal horns, trumpets and adopted out of wood, sections of gourd, or metal pipes, single-reed pipes made from millet stalks, and double-tonguedfrom the Arab culture are among other instruments in Africa. African stringed instruments or chordophones include musical bows, zither, bowed and plucked lutes, arched harps, harp-lutes and lyres.
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