Engoma Enganda Instrumental Mp3 Download

This single-skin drum is commonly used by the Bantu in the District of Ankole. It has aconico-cylindrical shape, but some royal drums are exclusively conically shaped.Conico-cylindrical means that the upper part of the body of the instrument is vertical,whereas the lower half has a cone-like shape. The diameter of the drumhead is thereforeconsiderably bigger than that of the drumbase. The engoma is called a single-headeddrum, in the sense that only the skin on the top of the instrument is used for beating.The second skin at its base is not for playing but forms a part of the lacing device.Traditionally the drum is made of wood, a piece of trunk in one piece selected from treesof a wide range of kinds. The engoma is carved such way that interior surfacecorresponds with the exterior, and that the average thickness of the sides about 2 cm is.Some carve the wood shortly after it's been cut, others prefer to work with dried wood.To prevent the wood from splitting it's is buried in the earth for a week after carving.Neither the drumhead nor the non-sonorous skin of the engoma is ever made of theskin of water animals, but always of hunted prey or cattle. Only the hides of old animalsare suitable for membranes and thongs, because the skin of young animals is easily thorn.The thongs are strips - cut from the same skin as the membrane - to string the two membranestogether. All the thongs are tied together by knots and may measure more than 60 metres.The thongs run over 300 times vertically up and down tying the membranes together by smallmade holes at the edge of the membranes. By fastening the membrane no particular lacing-patternis followed. Skilled instrument-makers can completely hide the wooden frame of the drum bythe thongs. Each engoma normally has two horizontal loops made of a bundle of skin-strips.The hollow body of the engoma always contains a little rattling object, usually itis a knotted piece of thong sometimes a pebble. It vibrates when the drum is played and thusimproves the sound. This tiny part of the instrument is such an important one that it iscalled the 'soul of the drum'. Before playing, the instrument is put into the sun, or closeto the heat of a fire so the membrane shrinks a little bit of dryness, the sound gets higherand better.

Normally the engoma stands erect in front of the drummer who squats or kneels onthe ground. The small, thin drumsticks of equal thickness are straight, never curved orhooked. The rim of the drum is never struck by the drumsticks.

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The Iru, the Kiga and the Hororo usually play the engoma with one drumstick,whereas the Kooki, the Nyambo and the Kunta play with two sticks or with their hands.The engoma does not exist at all in Hima society. e24fc04721