In Senegal, musicians get together to sing traditional stories about their history. Everybody joins in playing different instruments and singing. There are many different types of drums.
The djembe’s got a top part to play with your hands and a smaller bottom part to hold. The dundun is a large cylinder made from wood. The tama’s got strings around it that the musicians press and pull as they hit the drum with a stick. The musicians make the tama sound like somebody is talking.
Some musicians play a string instrument called the kora. It is like a guitar, but it’s got twentyone strings. The musician plays eleven strings with the left hand and ten with the right hand.
