Folk and World Music Instruments

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Icheche -   Igede shakers made from woven straw and leather that are filled with pebbles.

Ichigenkin -  smallest of the Japanese kotos. It has one string stretched over a slender plank of wood as a soundboard.

Ideh - large seeds attached to a grass band. They are used as an arm or leg rattle (Nigeria).

Idi - See Ideh.

Idiophones- instruments whose bodies themselves vibrate, such as rattles, xylophones, bells, gongs, and other instruments that are struck or rubbed.

Ieta -  a small 7-stringed harp of the Baka forest people from southeast Cameroon.

Ievina -  Latvian accordion.

Igba - Short Nigerian peg-tuned drum with the head made out of antelope skin. It is slung from the shoulder and played with a curved stick.

Igil - two-stringed fiddle from Tuva with a carved wooden horses' head attached to the top of the neck. Modern versions feature three strings. It is played vertically, while sitting on the ground or on a chair .

Ijachi -  An Igede iron spear identified with warrior musical groups. Clappers attached to the spear vibrate as it is plunged repeatedly into the ground (Nigeria).

Ikko - A highly decorated goblet shaped Japanese drum.

Ilimba - Tanzanian thumb piano

Imbongi -  Zulu musician storytellers.

Ingoma -  word for drum in Burundi.

Inkiranya -  large ceremonial drum from Burundi.

Instrument - Any device that produces a musical sound.

Ishaka - Ibo gourd shaker with three different types of natural seed nets (Nigeria).

Ipu -  a single gourd drum made in two sizes for dancers of both the ancient and modern hulas (Hawaii).

Ipu heke - a drum made of two gourds of unequal size which are attached at the necks. A hole is left in open on the top of the upper gourd, and the two are joined by breadfruit gum. The musician sits on the ground, hold the ipu in his left hand and with a kapa or twine loop and plays rhythms on it with his right hand.

Itótele -  the middle drum in the set of three Cuban batá drums.

Iworo -  Igede leg rattles worn by dancers. They are made from the large seeds of the ochichingbo vine.

Iyá -  the largest of the set of three Cuban batá drums. It is believed to communicate directly with the orishas during sacred ceremonies.

Iyailu - see Batá drums.

Iyesá - a set of four sacred two-headed drums made of hand-carved cedar. They are played with sticks.  

Izeze - Tanzanian stringed instrument.

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