Hosho (instrument)
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The hosho is a Zimbabwean musical instrument consisting of a maranka gourd with seeds, usually hota (Canna indica) inside it, or net of beads around it and which often accompanies Shona music, especially mbira music. It is a type of rattle. A smaller version of the hosho is made of a wild orange called a damba, tied together with sticks and filled with hota seeds or pebbles.
Other related percussive instruments from Zimbabwe include the magavhu (leg rattle) and ngoma (drum).
[edit] Places to obtain hosho
- Mbira.org Getting an mbira page at Erica Azim's site
- Zambuko Solomon Murungu's site
- Zimfest Festival Marketplace
- Dandemutande Hosho subcategory in resource guide. See also the Dandemutande mailing list for the purchase of hosho.
- MyLinda King's hosho & deze page
- Inside Passage Seeds Forest Shomer's hosho.
[edit] References
- Berliner, Paul (1981). The Soul of Mbira: Music and Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-04268-9.
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