Crescentia cujete or the tree gourd or calabash tree that are native to the American tropics. The Luffa gourds are Asian natives like the wax gourd, snake gourd, teasel gourd, hedgehog gourd and ...

The traditional marimba is made of wooden slats placed over resonant calabash gourds that produce a buzzing, polyrhythmic sound when hit with a mallet. Today, resonator pipes of different lengths ...

A collection of gourds representing all tribes in Kenya at the Nairobi National Museum. [Esther Jeruto, Standard] At the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi sits a spectacular centerpiece forming ...

This year, the dancers, in every age and size, will perform "Calabash: The African Gourd." "The calabash was an instrument, it was the first drum," musical director of Imani Edutainers Chinua ...

In Chinese music, gourds fall into one of the eight categories ... [4] The sheng was invented when people stuck bamboo pipes into a calabash and blew air into it to make musical notes.