Igbombo

Igbombo *ground bow of the Nepoko Pygmies of the Congo. A rattan string is attached at one end to a flexible vertical stick, at the other to a piece of bark laid over a nearby pit and tied down. The performer plucks the strings with his left hand while beating the bark with a drumstick, to the accompaniment of a companion's singing (30, 128). Sort by:DefaultAuthorTitleDateAscendingDescending Boone, Olga. “Les Tambours du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi,” Annales du Musée du Congo Belge…