Musical Instruments
- Agbe: a shaker
- Ashiko: a cone-shaped drum
- Batá drum: a well decorated traditional drum of many tones, with strong links to the deity Shango, it produces sharp high tone sounds.
- Goje: sort of violin like the sahelian kora
- Sekere: a melodic shaker; beads or cowrie shells beautifully wound around a gourd, shaken, beaten by fists occasionally and thrown in the air to create a festive mood.
- gudugudu: a smaller, melodic bata
- Sakara drum: goatskin istretched over clay ring
- Agogô: a high-pitched tone instrument like a "covered" 3-dimensional "tuning fork"
- Saworo: like agogo, but its tone is low-pitched
- aro: much like a saworo, low-pitched
- Seli: a combination of aro, saworo and hand-clapping
- Agidigbo, a thumb piano instrument wound round the neck and stabilized by the player's chest.
- Dundun, consisting of iya ilu or gbedu, main or "mother" drum and omele, smaller drums, played as an accompaniment to bata drums to create a base for their sharp beats.
- Bembé, bass drum, kettle drum. (see also List of Caribbean membranophones)
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