Krin / Kele
The krin is one of the many instruments without a snare.
In many countries they don't use the Tama as messenger, but uses an instrument without snare, made of a selective chosen tree trunk. The tree trunk is carved out with precision and care.
The result is a hollow cylinder with in the length an opening with one or two tongues, a male and female. The tongues have different thickness so that they make a different tone; the common Krin is about one meter long. The minimum length is about fifty centimetres and the maximum length is two and a half meter
The diameter can you get up to one meter, but usually it is between twenty five and forty centimetres.
The krin just makes two tones, sometimes even three
That's why the mesages are encoded ad exists of metaphoric sentenses that are used for different, compared meanings.
Though the krin is known as an instrument to send messages it is also used to make music to accompany dancing
Krin / Kele
Die Krin oder Kele kommt aus Guinée und wird unter anderem aus Palisanderholz gefertigt. Das bei uns als Schlitztrommel bekannt gewordene Instrument gehört zur Gruppe der Idiophone.
Die Krin/Kele besitzt einen satten Sound und trägt weit. Das eigent-lich rituelle Instrument wird auch zur Nachrichtenübermittlung verwendet.
Die Schlitztrommel ist über beinahe alle Kontinente verbreitet und taucht in vielen Grössen und Formen (manchmal ganze Baumstämme) bei vielen Völkern auf.