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The agogô, also known as gã, is a musical instrument of the idiophones family (instruments that produce the sound through vibration of the body of the instrument, not needing any tension).
It consists of two to four iron bells or two hollow cones and without leaf base of Flanders, joined by the vertices.
To produce the sound of the instrument, it ...
The agogô, also known as gã, is a musical instrument of the idiophones family (instruments that produce the sound through vibration of the body of the instrument, not needing any tension).
It consists of two to four iron bells or two hollow cones and without leaf base of Flanders, joined by the vertices.
To produce the sound of the instrument, it is beaten with a wooden stick in the mouths of iron.
It originates in the traditional Yoruba music of West Africa and is widely used in Brazilian music, religious rituals and capoeira rhythms. In the Yoruba language agogô means bell.
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