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NEW ADVANCEMENT OF ETHIOPIAN TRADITIONAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS (KRAR AND MASINQO) [Abstract ID: 0208-07]
IN ETHIOPIA, THERE ARE A LOT OF TRADITIONAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. THE MOST POPULAR THAT NOW WE PLAY AND TEACH ARE the KRAR AND the MASINQO. The KRAR IS ONE OF THE STRING, MELODIC AND BEAT INSTRUMENTs. THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF KRARS. ONE IS MADE FROM GOAT SKIN AND a WOODEN PLATE WITH PLASTIC STRINGs. THE OTHER ONE IS MADE FROM WOOD WITH IRON STRINGs. EACH KRAR HAS a SOUND BOX WITH FIVE OR SIX STRINGS TRADITIONALLY BECAUSE ETHIOPIAN MUSIC IS PLAYED IN a PENTATONIC SCALE (5 SOUNDS). The MASINQO IS A ONE-STRINGED MELODIC ETHIOPIAN CULTURAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT THAT HAS A DIAMOND-SIDED SOUND BOX MADE OF WOOD AND GOAT SKIN AND THE STRING FROM HORSETAIL. WE CREATED, DISCOVERED AND INVESTIGATED a 12-STRINGED KRAR WITH CHROMATIC SCALE AND a 3-STRINGED MASINQO TO PLAY DIFFERENT TYPES OF SCALES THAT HELPS TO PLAY WORLD MUSIC WITH OUR OWN TRADITIONAL INSTRUMENTS. OUR DREAM IS TO SHARE AND TO TEACH WHAT WE HAVE TO THE REST OF THE WORLD. THE OLD MASINQO AND KRAR HAve THEIR OWN QUALITIES and THEiR OWN COLOR. WE CAN PLAY ETHIOPIAN SCALES AND ETHIOPIAN MUSIC IN A VERY NICE WAY FULL OF ETHIOPIAN COLOUR,BUT IT WILL BE A LITTLE HARD TO PLAY AFRICAN AND WORLD MUSIC AND CHORDS WITH THOSE OLD INSTRUMENTS. WE NEED MORE THAN 5 AND 6 SOUNDS TO PLAY OTHER WORLD MUSIC BECAUSE OF THE NUMBER OF SOUNDS OF OTHER WORLD MUSIC. TO PLAY DIATONIC (7 SOUNDS) AND CHROMATIC (12 SOUNDS), WE NEED MORE STRINGS TO ADD ON THE INSTRUMENTS. AND ALSO IT WILL BE A LITTLE HARD TO MAKE UN OCTAVE SOUNDS (HIGHER PITCH SOUNDS) ON THE OLD INSTRUMENTS. WE BELIEVE AND OF COURSE WE CAN PLAY OUR CULTURAL MUSIC AND THEY ARE SO UNIQUE FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD. AND WE ARE TRyING TO SHOW THAT THOSE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS CAN ALSO LET US PLAY AFRICAN AND WORLD MUSIC AND WE WANT TO SHOW TO OUR PEOPLE AND TO THE WORLD HOW MUCH THOSE INSTRUMENTS CAN PERFORM AND HAVE UNIQUE COLOUR AND CAN BE FUSED WITH ANY KINDS OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS THROUghOUT THE WORLD SO THAT ANYONE CAN USE THEM FOR INTeRNaTIONAL MUSIC RECORDINGS. THIS WILL HELP OUR PEOPLE AND OUR COUNTRY IN OPENING DOORWAYS TO PROMOTE OUR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, TRADITION, CULTURE, MUSIC AND DANCE FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD.