Amadinda

The Amadinda ( rarely also Madinda ) is a spar Xylophone with twelve wooden sound boards, which is native to the Buganda kingdom, a province Uganda - especially in the royal court, but also in households influential and wealthy Ganda. The instrument is tuned in an " tempered pentatonic scale ".

The wood for the sound bar comes from Insambya tree ( Markhamia platycalyx or lutea). Centrally located in the control cavities that occur when voices of the plates in their lower sides. As a base of the instrument usually serve two banana stems. The bars lie across it and be of small branches separately that plug into the banana trunks.

For unaccompanied sounding Amadinda numerous compositions have survived, which are traditionally performed by three players; each of them has two mallets. Two of the musicians sitting opposite each other on the sides of the instrument and play each note sequences in parallel octaves. The interaction, however, is like a zipper added, with each player feels that their own tones " on the beat " fall. So the music is not based on a common clock still on a common beat. The part of the third musician is limited to the game's top two panels, the amakoonezi.