MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF AFRICAThere is a wide variety of traditional instruments in Africa. These can be described in four main groups: Wind instruments, string instruments, drums, and idiophones.Wind instruments produce music when a person blows air into them.Pipes and whistles can be made from short pieces of reed and from the horn of a small cow or antelope.Such pipes are used widely in Africa, especially from the Pygmies of Zaire.The Tswana tribe of Botswana and Chopi of Mozambique have groups of musicians who play pipes. Each pipe produces different sound and music can be made by combining these sounds.If several pipes are bound together to form one instrument, they are called panpipes.These are common among the Luba in Zaire and the Ndebele in South Africa.Below: