Id Url Resource class Title Creator Subject Publisher Contributor Date Type Format Identifier Source Language Relation Coverage Rights Audience Alternative Title Date Created Extent Medium Requires Is Part Of Has Part Spatial Coverage Temporal Coverage Audience Education Level Bibliographic Citation Provenance String carrier design for chordophone Resonator design for chordophone String courses for chordophone Vibrational length for chordophone String tension control for chordophone Method of sounding for chordophone Pitches per string course for chordophone Number of drums comprising instrument for membranophone Shell design for membranophone Number and function of membranes for membranophone Membrane design for membranophone Membrane attachment for membranophone Membrane tension control for membranophone Sounding for membranophone Sound modifiers for membranophone Basic form of sonorous object/s for idiophone Sound objects per instrument for idiophone Resonator design for idiophone Number of players for idiophone Sounding principle for idiophone Sound exciting agent for idiophone Energy input motion by performer for idiophone Pitch of sound produced for idiophones Sound modification for idiophones Air cavity design for aerophones Source and direction of airstream Energy transducer that activates sound for aerophones Means of modifying shape and dimensions of standing wave in air cavity for aerophones Overblowing utilization in aerophones Pitch production in aerophones Category of Instrument Type of electrophone Type of oscillator for electrophones Type of pickup for electrophones Number of voices for electrophones Primary pitch controller for electrophones MIDI compatible for electrophones SignalProcessingDevices for electrophones Learning Resource Type https://omeka-s.grinnell.edu/s/MusicalInstruments/item/8429 wmi:MusicalInstrument gandira 211.311 Solomon Madhinga near Tafara Primary School, Chipinge District, Zimbabwe Tony Perman Ndau 9 in. diameter of drumhead 1.9 in. depth of shell 10 in. length of beater 7114 East Africa English Zimbabwe | Mozambique makandira | ncomane | mantshomane wood | membrane - mammal skin one Africa Johnston, Thomas F. 1971. “The Music of the Shangana-Tsonga.” Ph.D. Dissertation, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Kirby, Percival R. 1934. The Musical Instruments of the Native Races of South Africa. London: Oxford University Press. Perman, Tony. 2020. Signs of the Spirit: Music and the Experience of Meaning in Ndau Ceremonial Life. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. Perman collection single drum tubular - frame one, for sounding unframed unframed membrane lapped over pegs protruding from shell none, tension set at time of manufacture striking with one handheld beater none membranophone