agogô
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An agogô () is idiophone bell percussion instrument. With origins in West African music, it is now commonly used in traditional and popular Brazilian music. Agogôs are typically made from two cone-shaped pieces of metal with different pitches.
Key facts
- Instrument.name
- Agogô
- Instrument.names
- gan gan (smaller version)
- Instrument.image
- Modern-Agogo.jpg
- Instrument.image_capt
- Modern Agogô bell
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs
- 111.242
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs_desc
- Bells
- Instrument.pitch
- Medium to High
- Instrument.timbre
- Bright, uniform
- Instrument.volume
- Medium to loud
- Instrument.attack
- Fast
- Instrument.decay
- Medium
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- Image
- Modern-Agogo.jpg
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- Commons category
- Agogôs
- Hornbostel-Sachs classification
- 111.242
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- Agogô
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9 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Construction
- Playing
- Uses
- Nigeria
- Brazil
- See also
- References
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An agogô () is idiophone bell percussion instrument. With origins in West African music, it is now commonly used in traditional and popular Brazilian music. Agogôs are typically made from two cone-shaped pieces of metal with different pitches.
== Etymology == The word agogô is West African in origin. Ágogo is used by the Edo, Idoma, Igala, and Yoruba people of Nigeria to refer to a single or double clapperless bell. A broader category of all types of clapperless bells is referred to by the word òjè, which translates to "iron". The instrument's name and the knowledge of its construction were carried to the Americas by enslaved West Africans.