Tsikaya project - The Ngele - Musical Instruments of Angola from ngele Watch Video
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Description: The Ngele is played with the index fingers and thumbs on the strings and the other fingers holding the board. It consists of a wooden board with seven metal stringsset in a gourd used as a sounding board. The tuning is performed with small fragments of wood, incerted between the strings and the wooden board which are displaced to either side as intended in order to extend or stretch the strings. The side which enters the gourd has a part in a rectangular shape and another rounded penetrating t
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