The African Horn
by Anthony Mwangi
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25.000 x 25.000 inches
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Title
The African Horn
Artist
Anthony Mwangi
Medium
Painting - Kyle's Oil
Description
MUSICAL instruments made from the horns of animals and occasionally from other materials and sounded, as European ‘brass’ instruments are sounded, by causing the vibrating lips to make the air-column in the tube vibrate, are, or have been, common among the Bantu peoples of South Africa, but not among the Bushmen or Hottentots. With two exceptions, all these instruments are blown through an embouchure made in the side of the tube, not at the tip. Side-blown horns are characteristic of Africa, so it is not surprising to find that the two exceptional instruments, which will be considered later, have been adopted from other cultures. Apart from these, there are two main varieties of horns used by South African natives. The first are of large size, being made from the horns of the larger antelopes, or, when these have become scarce, from substitute materials, and the second of smaller size, being made from the horns of smaller antelopes, or from substitute materials.
In Zulu land, a man engaged to a girl for marriage will blow this horn in the valley in a certain known way so that all the men of the valley know that he is engaged to a certain girl and that she is out of bounds. The horn music or sound had many other uses even a call for war!
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January 7th, 2021
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