Dum dum
The Dum dum (also dunun , dun dun , dounoun , etc) are instruments with percussion of origin mandingue.
This family of instruments gathers the Kenkeni (acutest), the Sangban (medium) as well as the Doundounba. Traditionally, these three instruments are played separately, by three dumdumfola (players of dum dum).
A dum dum consists of a barrel out of wooden on which two skins are tended at each end: a skin of striking and a skin of resonance. The dumdumfola striking using a wood stick skin of striking. With the other hand, it strikes a bell fixed at the dum dum using a metal stem.
The dumdums belong to the tradition of the Empire Mandingue (which recuts the Guinea, Is Mali, the West of the Burkina Faso, the North of the Ivory Coast) and are traditionally played in accompaniment of the Djembé.
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