Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- percussion instrument
- Has part
- hole
- Material used
- clay
- Image
- Udus (from Emil Richards Collection).jpg
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- Hornbostel-Sachs classification
- 111.24+413.2
- used by
- Hausa people
- Commons category
- Udus
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- About
- Construction
- Playing technique
- Udu makers
- See also
- References
thumb|Udu Music
thumb|An band percussion pot thumb|Sound of plastic, or fiberglass Udu The kim-kim or Udu is a plosive aerophone (in this case implosive) and an idiophone of the Igbo of Nigeria. In the Igbo language, ùdù means 'vessel' or 'pot'. This is a hand percussion instrument and it is one of the most important instruments in Igbo music.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “udu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.