Drum & Percussion Encyclopedia - 'I' Instruments |
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Name: Icheche
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Class: Idiophone
Category: Rattle |
Description: Hand shakers made from straw and leather. It is typically filled with small stones or pebbles. |
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Name: Ideh
Origin: Nigeria
Class: Idiophone
Category: Rattle |
Description: Nickel size seeds attached to a grass band. Used as an arm or leg rattle. Soft, sprinkling sound. |
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Name: Idi
Origin: Nigeria
Class: Idiophone
Category: Rattle |
Description: 100-200 seeds attached to a grass band. Used as an arm or leg rattle. Seeds produce a soft rain stick sound. |
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Name: Igba (Short)
Origin: Nigeria
Class: Membranophone
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Description: Tuned by pounding the wedges on the shell of the drum. This loosening or tightening of the wedges can lower or raise the pitch of the drum. It is usually covered with Antelope skin. |
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Name: Igba (Tall)
Origin: Nigeria
Class: Membranophone
Category: Long |
Description: Tall, open bottom drums. Covered with antelope skin. It is played with a curved stick. Tuned by pounding the wedges on the shell of the drum. This loosening or tightening of the wedges can lower or raise the pitch of the drum. |
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Name: Ijachi
Origin: Nigeria
Class: Idiophone
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Description: A slender metal blade or spear that has small jingles or clappers attached to it. They vibrate and create a unique sound as the blade strikes the ground. |
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Name: Ikko
Origin: Japan
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Description: A small goblet shaped drum. |
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Name: Ili-Ili
Origin: Hawaii
Class: Idiophone
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Description: These are very smooth castanets, made from lava rock. |
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Name: Ilimba
Origin: Tanzania
Class: Idiophone
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Description: A thumb Piano. |
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Name: Ingqongqo
Origin: Africa
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Name: Inkiranya
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Class: Membranophone
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Description: A large drum used primarily for ceremonies or religious festivals. |
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Name: Intambula
Origin: Africa
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Name: Ipu-Heke
Origin: Hawaii
Class: Idiophone
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Description: Used in Hawaiian traditional songs and luau's. They are various sizes. Usually two different sized gourds are attached to each other at the neck, creating a dual-sided gourd drum. One of the gourds has a hole bored out to release sound. |
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Name: Iron Bell-Gong
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Class: Idiophone
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Name: Iron Leg Rattle
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Class: Idiophone
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Description: A ring shaped bell rattle. |
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Name: Ishaka
Origin: Nigeria
Class: Idiophone
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Description: A gourd shaker filled with several different types of seeds. |
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Name: Itotele
Origin: Cuba
Class: Membranophone
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Description: This is the medium sized drum in the set of Bata drums. It has a unique sound and is used to compliment and help bring together all three sounds in the set. |
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Name: Iworo
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Class: Idiophone
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Description: Leg rattles. |
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Name: Iya
Origin: Cuba
Class: Membranophone
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Description: This is the largest sized drum in the set of Bata drums. It has the deepest bass sound out of all three drums in the set. |
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Name: Iyesa
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Class: Membranophone
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Description: These are two-headed drums usually played as a set of four. Typically played with the hands. |
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