Djembe

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Invention

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Arts and letters

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What Wikipedia says

A djembe or jembe ( JEM-bay; from Malinke jembe [dʲẽbe], N'Ko: ߖߋ߲߰ߓߋ) is a rope-tuned, skin-covered goblet drum played with bare hands from the Sabar family, originally from Senegal that is widely used in West Africa.

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