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The image below is from a church in Kiev called St Sophia Cathedral
The Violin, the archetypal Goje:
The Goje is a one string fiddle from Nigeria. Snakeskin covers a gourd bowl to create a membrane head similar to that of a banjo. Horsehair strings are suspended on a bridge. The Goje is played with a bow…
In Ethiopia and Eritrea, one finds similar traditional fiddles that are played exactly like the violin and which produce similar sounds.
These traditional fiddles come from stone-age Africa. Before the first modern Europe was born, before any of the famous million dollar fiddle manufacturers were ever conceived, fiddles, the famous violins, have been created and used widely right across the African continent.
Fiddles probably came into Europe by way of the waves of Moorish incursions which implanted their populations and culture in the European landscape, ages ago.
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I think the Moors of Spain introduced the violin, guitar and the classical music(Mozart, Beethoven) to Europe. Black people are never credited for the invention of the violin, guitar and other instruments.
In the Senegalese musician Youssou Ndour album Egypt you can hear Egyptian fiddle/violin musicians.
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is necessary to break the myth that in Africa there were only percussion instruments. And that only in europe haved complex songs.
Africa had various types of instruments and complex songs and the old Europeans were black.
Listen to the songs of medieval europe
resemble Arab songs
Moors influenced the music of europe that is actually is in the history books of music I've put it here long time
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Banjo is a musical instrument which had was invented and widely used in ancient Mauritania, the Sahel and the Coast of Guinea.
The Moors of West Africa, the Mauritanians, the so-called Negros who had been forcibly brought to the Americas subsequently re-created the Banjo, this West African musical instrument which is very similar to the North African Moorish guitarro.
According to Thomas Jefferson in 1781: “The instrument proper to them (i.e. the slaves) is the Banjar, which they brought hither from Africa.”
Banjo was the instrument widely used in American folk music until after the depression of 1929, when historians remarked that its happy notes were replaced by the more sombre notes of the guitar.
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In Ethiopia, one can find some of the earliest forms of guitar where it is known as Krar Harp. In India, there also exists the Sitar, another one of the earlier forms of guitar.
The Krar harp or one of its variations later developed into the guitarro, the direct ancestor of the guitar which was used widely in ancient Mauritania, later known as the Maghreb, the Sahel and Guinea.
Guitarro was introduced to Spain by African Moors in the 9th century AD. They used it for their music and soon the whole of Spain, southern Italy, southern France, became avid acolytes of guitarro culture.
When the Moors fell from power, guitarro had already become an integral part of Iberian music.
The Moors many of whom migrated to the Americas brought their guitarro with them.
Guitarro was widely played in the Spanish colonies since it was the Spaniards and the Portugese that conquered and shared the Moorish lands in America between them.
Alghough widely played in the latin territories of America in the 17th and 18th century, it was only known in the southern region of the United States in the 19th century. Its use was not widespread until the early 20th century when it was used by popular professional musicians like the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers.
Therefore, the use of the guitar in the recorded selections was probably a relatively recent innovation.
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It is true that Africans had more instruments than just percussion. In fact some of the more expensive artifacts are the horns now on the auction market, but it is very hard to find any videos of these being actually played in the culture. Some of these horns are predecessors of the modern sax.
And of course nothing about African culture can be complete until you do a story about how non Africans stole it and got rich.
quote: It used to be visible only at football matches, but the metre-long horn known as the vuvuzela has grown in popularity beyond South Africa, thanks to the World Cup finals set to kick off here in June. But just who is cashing in on the South African-turned-global phenomenon?
Popular Kaizer Chiefs supporter Freddie ‘Saddam” Maake, who claims to have created the instrument, is an angry man and feels sidelined from the lucrative spin-offs of his ‘hard work”. The Mail & Guardian caught up with the colourful 53-year-old football fan at his home in Tembisa this week. He vows the rights of the vuvuzela belong to him and went on to put up a convincing argument for why he should receive royalties from all the companies that produce the horn.
But then again that is what happens when naive behind Africans are so eager to show off being friends with folks who have ONLY robbed them of everything. They keep getting robbed. (Of course this story could be a total crock...)
In Ethiopia, one can find some of the earliest forms of guitar where it is known as Krar Harp. In India, there also exists the Sitar, another one of the earlier forms of guitar.
The Krar harp or one of its variations later developed into the guitarro, the direct ancestor of the guitar which was used widely in ancient Mauritania, later known as the Maghreb, the Sahel and Guinea.
Guitarro was introduced to Spain by African Moors in the 9th century AD. They used it for their music and soon the whole of Spain, southern Italy, southern France, became avid acolytes of guitarro culture.
When the Moors fell from power, guitarro had already become an integral part of Iberian music.
The Moors many of whom migrated to the Americas brought their guitarro with them.
Guitarro was widely played in the Spanish colonies since it was the Spaniards and the Portugese that conquered and shared the Moorish lands in America between them.
Alghough widely played in the latin territories of America in the 17th and 18th century, it was only known in the southern region of the United States in the 19th century. Its use was not widespread until the early 20th century when it was used by popular professional musicians like the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers.
Therefore, the use of the guitar in the recorded selections was probably a relatively recent innovation.
The Krar similarities are awesome.
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