ALGAITA
£80.00Price
Handcrafted, individually made, Hausa/Kanuri/Bamum people's reed instrument from the Sahelian region of West-Central Africa, especially in Cameroon and Nigeria. Traditionally used to communicate with an Emir or king as well as between them and their subjects.
Its sound can also be heard on these old records:
Music from the Villages of Northeastern Nigeria (Folkways, 1971)
"Music of the Cameroon - The Fulani of the North" (Lyrichord 7334)
Yusef Lateef, "In Nigeria" (YAL Records, 1983)
Yusef Lateef, "The African-American Epic Suite" (1994)