Adungu, Adeudeu
bow harp - arched harp - string instument
A nine-string arched (bow) harp of the Alur people from the northwestern region. It's very identical to the "tumi" harp of the Kebu poeple a neigbours tribe. This instrument play also the Lugbara and Ondrosi tribe in this nordwestern region West-Nile
The harp accompanies the vocal repertoire, epic and lyrical songs. Can also be played as a solo instrument or accomapines with an ensemble. The arched harp have had a high social level and are played mostly in the high society the royal scene (chief). Nowadays tey are used to play in the church.
It is chordophone instrument which produce sound through the vibration of a string by plucking. An arched neck, with a wooden resonator (sound box) in which the neck is fixed. With a series of parallel strings of unequal lenghts are fixed in this resonator. The strings run from the resonator at an oblique angle to the neck where they are attached and tuned mechanically. The strings are arranged in progressive order from hight to low note.
The first, the second and third strings are tuned in a octave with the sixth, the seven and the eigth strings respectively. In the traditional music it is tuned in the pentatonic scale, can be also tuned in modern style in a diatonic scale.
 
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Endongo-Entogooli
Endongo - Entongooli
lyre - bowl lyre - harp lute - kora - string instrument
This have to be a typical instrument of the Buganda and Busoga kingdom. Generally the harp-lute is the instrument of the griots, like the kora or the soron from the Guinea, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Gambia and southern Mali people (West Africa). It is played either in solo performance or with to accompain songs of praise.
It ranges from six to eight strings. The strings have to be plucked, they differ greatly in structur from the harp proper. These instrumen are made with a large hemispherical sound-box of gourd, crossed by a long and straight cylindical neck, the lower end of which extends beyond the base and serves as the string-holder. All strings are made of ox lendon, curved with lizard skin areround the wooden neck and with plated leather rings that can be slid up and down for tuning. A large noteched bridge, standing upright in the center of the sound-table, rises the strings and maintains them in two parallel rows. The player holds the instrument opposite himself, so as to be able to pluck the strings between the bridge and the neck with the thumb and forefinger. The lyre has a four sided frame, consisting of a soundbox, two arms and a crossbar. The strings are attached in the front of the soundbox and run over a bridge to the crossbar. A chordophone instrument which produce sound through the vibration of a string.
- The endongo, the ganda lyre has one hole, the entongooli the songa, has two pieces of cloth, barkcloth or banana fibers wrapped around the yoke. The strings are wound round and round the material until it acts as a tuning peg.
The strings in the bow lyre are not in the progressive order. The highest note in the scale is third from the left and the lowest, fifth. Strings 7, 2, 4, 1 and 5 ar in the octaves
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Ennanga:
Ennanga
lute - string instrument
It is a royal instrument of the Buganda region. The lute, those are played in Africa have a boat-shaped sound box with a fairly long neck, of wood, which enters the resonator throught the skin sound-table. Have existed in early antiquity, as similar instrument may be seen in the hands of the women.
It is strictly a solo insrument with eight strings. All lutes hav a resonating belly and neck, with strings stretched nearly the full lenght of the instrumen. Important differences include the shape and size of the body and neck, how many strings are included and whether there are frets. A chordophone instrument which produce sound through the vibration of a string.
- Sekitugele
musical bow - string isntrument
This bow instrument are the simplest form of string instrument thought to have developed from the hunting bow (arrow). Musical bow will be the mother of the stringe instruments, or any rate of the harp and dating back in a very early time. The resonator of the elder fiddle have had a ground like a kikuyu instrument. Have be similar to the children's ground bow. This one is popular in the Buganda, Busoga and in the western Nile region.
It has only one string which keeps changing pitch depending on the level of tension and relaxation. A chordophone instrument which produce sound through the vibration of a string
| Amadinda - Embaire - Entaara - Akadinda
xylophone - percussion instrument
The keys, of wooden stats of xylophones are often fitted with resonators to amplify the tones. The resonators can take the shape of small separate devices or a common sound-box or even a pit dug into the ground. The keys lie parallel to one another over and across the pit, which is about 70 centimeter deep and almost 2 meters wide. The musican strikes the left-hand keys (the bass) with a club of fairly soft wood and the right-hand keys with a heavy crooked beater made of extremely hard wood. The keyboard of the small instrument is set above another shallower pit. Its role is to provide a melodic and rhythmic ostinato as a cue for the main xylophone which reners the different themes designed to persusde each deity to dance at the ceremonies for the vodun (voodoo). A pair of rattles and an iron bell always complete a performance on the double xylophone, which is also often accompanied by songs.
It is a very popluar instrument in the Bantu region. The keys are separeted by either long sticks (Buganda) or short once and are placed on banana stems. (The Bakonyo and Busoga used short and long sticks). The keys are tied in place by threading fiber through small holes in the wood.
The Amadinda has two shoulders carved on the bottom so that they will not move when it is placed on the banana stems. The keys, which are not tied or otherwise fixed, are kept in placed when being played. Nowadays the whole instrument is made of wood.
In the older times, the instrument have had 22 keys. Five men were needed to play the 17 keys and 6 the the 22. This rare instrument are played for the kabaka (the Buganda king). Today the Amadinda has 12 keys and use 3 men to play the instrument. Each have to playing a different theme. One man plays only at the 2 highest notes while the others may use any of the ten.
The amadinda and akadinda vary in size and number of keys. The amadinda is larger (in terms of the size of the keys) usually with 15 or more keys tuned in an equidistant pentatonic scale (the same scale is used in akadinda). It is played by two or more people and often involves the abstraction of vocal-based pieces performed instrumentally. The interaction of the two players' melodies (each with two hands playing the same notes, one octave apart) creates a third melody with a longer cycle. Two players can produce music faster than 120 beats per minute with each indiviual apprearing to barely break a sweat. The akadinda keys are ususally smaller in size, but may have either more keys (around 20) or fewer (only 10). Essentially, the akadinda is a more diminutive amadinda (in terms of key size). The compositional structure is essentially the same, except that the 20 key instrument is played by four people and the ten by a soloist (in conjunction with the Mbaga wedding dance, for example).
Instruments which produce sounds through the vibration of the vary materials, they are made of, are known as idiophones.
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