Ngoni West African Harp
N'goni maker and professional musician Arouna Diarra was born and raised from Burkina Faso, a country and region in West Africa where N'gonis have been played for many generations. Arouna Diarra has toured internationally in tandem with his wife Adjaratou Diarra, as a solo artist, and with bands including Rising Appalachia.
Arouna handcrafts N'gonis with very high skill and infuses his positive energy into every piece. Now we can offer his beautiful instruments to the Beautiful Sounds community!
N'gonis (aka West African Harp) can be played both acoustically or amplified (with the optional pickup) giving us many ways to include this instrument into our sound healing work with groups or individual sessions, performance and our own personal enjoyment.
The Ngoni features nylon strings which along with the gourd resonator as the body of the instrument give a very soothing, gentle and warm sound.
The making and preparation process for your Ngoni takes 8 weeks from time of order. What's quite unique for these specific Ngoni is that Arouna personally plays and prepares before sending and this allows the strings to stretch out and settle so we don't have to do that time consuming work ourselves upon receiving the instrument.
Ship Time
Your N'goni ships out directly from the maker in Arizona within approximately 2 months from time of order.
Tunings
We love Ngoni because their pentatonic tunings are designed for allow for easy music creation right away - no wrong notes (when tuned up properly)! And because it's a string instrument, you can experiment with a variety of tunings over time or to match other instruments in your collection.
Features
- Choice of 5 Pentatonic tuning of your choice (most popular scales)
- E minor, D minor, C minor, B minor, A minor
- 440 standard but can be retuned easily tune to 432
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Minor scale standard but simple to retune to major scale
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- 12 nylon strings with 2 full octaves
- Optional Padded Travel Bag to protect your Ngoni in transport
- Optional Electric Pickup for amplification
