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WATCH | How to build an umakhweyana

Music In Africa Foundation

By Music In Africa Foundation

12 Oct 2017 - 13:16

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In 2016, the Music In Africa Foundation (MIAF) invited participants from across the African continent to take part in a series of Instrument Building and Repair Workshops. The intensive weeklong training sessions armed the trainees with skills on how to build from scratch a number of musical instruments, namely the marimba, dulcimer and umakhweyana.

Bavikile Ngema shows workshop participants how to play an umakhweyana.

By filming the sessions, the MIAF has ensured that the knowledge shared by the workshop facilitators and trainers is never lost, with both aspiring and already established instrument makers now given the opportunity to learn the secrets of building their own instruments from the comfort of their screens.

In How to Make an Umakhweyana, workshop trainers Bavikile Ngema and Mpho Molikeng teach the participants how to create the string bow.

Watch the video below:

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsNeX10q_SE width:744 height:446 autoplay:0]

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