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	West African culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The gyil is made from 14 wooden slats that are suspended, on a frame, over calabash gourds.
		The gyil is the national instrument of the Dagara, Lobi and other nations of Ghana and Burkina Faso of Africa.
		Yet the gyil master (an instrument maker as well as player) studies the instrument much of his life before he is considered worthy to represent the community at sacred events," Rasmussen explained.
	www.tntech.edu /publicaffairs/rel/gyil.html (496 words)

	Gyil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is the primary traditional musical instrument used by the Dagara, an African ethnic group.
		The instrument is made with a wooden frame, calabash gourds with spider web silk covering small holes in the gourds to produce a buzzing sound, antelope sinew and leather for the fastenings and a red hardwood called liga for the keys.
		The gyil is usually played in pairs, accompanied by a calabash gourd drum called a kuor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gyil (143 words)

	The Gyll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Gyil (pronounced jee-lee), the grandmother of the mallet keyboard family, is made from fourteen wooden slats that are suspended, on a frame, over calabash gourds.
		Yet the gyil master (an instrument maker as well as player) studies the instrument for much of his life before he is considered worthy to represent the community at sacred events.
		The gyil master is especially important as the initiator of the funeral, the Dagara and Lobi’s most important rite of passage.
	www.maplewoodonline.com /music/naranjo/gyil.shtml (276 words)

	the gyil and other writings
		Although a special type of gyil is played in pairs at funerals, for most other purposes the gyil is a solo instrument (2).
		The gyil is described as the mascot of the region.
		Although the gyil can be accompanied by a player striking two sticks on a non-tuned part of the instrument, a Kuar (hand drum), and by dancers who wear metal rattles and carry a metal "castanet" called nupiraa, the music of a single gyil player stands on its own.
	www.mandaramusic.com /writings/Oct92percnotesdagari.html (1212 words)

	Live Jazz, World and Latin American music in New York
		Gyil music is to the ear as a kaleidoscope looks to the eye - a dazzling matrix of consistent yet ever-changing interlocking elements engaged in dynamic conversation.
		GYIL (pronounced JEEL or JEE lee), is the national instrument of the Dagara and Lobi nations of West Africa.
		Nearly every man in the community can play at least a tune or two, yet the gyil master (an instrument maker as well as player) studies the instrument for much of his life before he is considered worthy to represent the community at sacred events.
	www.tallerlatino.org /BUMarchive.html (3753 words)

	the gyil
		The Gyil (pronounced JEE-lee) is one of the grandparents of the mallet keyboard family.
		The gyil is used for everything in life; from weddings and funerals to dances and everyday recreation.
		Yet the qyil master (an instrument maker as well as a player) studies the instrument for much of his life before he is considered worthy to represent his community at sacred events.
	www.mandaramusic.com /gyil.html (269 words)

	Afropop Worldwide
		The gyil (pronounced JEE-lee) is the national instrument of the Lobi and Dagara people of Ghana, Burkina Faso and the Ivory Coast.
		Gyil music, as Naranjo explained between songs, is community music that accompanies many everyday events such as funeral celebrations, healing ceremonies and courtship dances.
		In fact, her proficiency in playing the gyil led to the declaration of a chiefly decree in the Dagara nation that women be allowed to play the instrument.
	afropop.org /multi/feature/ID/262/WorldRenownedGyilTriodazzlesC... (551 words)

	Gyil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The festival is organized by the chiefs andsubchiefs...
		Two more relaxed interludes were provided by Chris Brannick and Thomas Segkura on the xylophone-like gyil, its wooden strips amplified by strategically-placed clay pots.
		The centerpiece is a giant, rotating "Tree of Sounds," a tallspiral sculpture featuring bells, gongs and chrimes.The Gyil (jee-lee), a West African mallet keyboard, made from 14 woodenslats that are suspended, on a frame, over calabash gourds, will...
	hallencyclopedia.com /Gyil (289 words)

	Gina Ferrera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The gyil (pronounced Jee-LEE) is one of the many xylophone/marimbas throughout West Africa.
		The gyil is made from fourteen wooden slats that are suspended on a frame of gourds (calabash).
		The gyil is a staple of the community in its traditional setting.
	www.ginaferrera.com /gyil.html (200 words)

	KOKOLO \| Bios (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Gina found the uniqueness she craved in the shekere (beaded calabash) and the gyil (West African xylophone).
		She journeyed to Ghana in West Africa in 2001 to further study with the creator and world-renowned soloist of the gyil, Kakraba Lobi.
		She approached the drum-kit with the same enthusiasm and meditative feeling that she brought to playing the gyil.
	www.kokoloonline.com /GinaBio.html (337 words)

	Dagara Music: African Music and Traditional Dance of Ghana with Bernard Woma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The gyil is a pentatonic scale instrument made with natural materials, including wooden frame, calabash gourds with spider web silk covering small holes in the gourds to give a buzzing sound, sinew and leather for the fastenings and a stong red wood called liga for the keys.
		The gyil is considered a sacred instrument, as it is made from living things.
		According to tradition, the gyil is always purified when it is built, and is highly respected by the Dagara people.
	www.dagaramusic.com /instruments.shtm (154 words)

	lost in brooklyn studio, inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It was in Ghana that composer and clarinetist Derek Bermel came to study the gyil, a marimba-like West African wood and gourd xylophone.
		The gyil is a 14- to 18-key instrument resembling a Western marimba.
		Keeping true to gyil music, which is always in the same key, the entirety of Dust Dances is in D and employs a pentatonic scale, the tuning the gyil approximates.
	www.lostinbrooklyn.com /work/writing/asolwriting01.html (1200 words)

	BVB Press Release
		The gyil is the national instrument of the Lobi and Dagara people of Ghana, Burkina Faso, and the Ivory Coast.
		He is the lead drummer and solo gyil player of the National Dance Ensemble of Ghana, and he has traveled the world performing and teaching this music.
		Her skills playing the gyil led to the declaration of a chiefly decree in the Dagara nation that women be allowed to play the instrument.
	www.wheresthe1.com /20030627pr.html (561 words)

	Gina Ferrera
		After years of studying drums and various percussion instruments, she was first introduced to the gyil (West African marimba/ xylophone) by Valerie Naranjo (introduced the gyil to women musicians / percussionist for Broadway's “The Lion King”.
		Ferrera's musical vision of bridging the tradition of the instrument and her own influences including funk, jazz, latin, afro-beat, folk and blues, proves to be an exciting adventure.
		As a performer and educator she has established “Gina’s Gyil” to conduct workshops & classes at various venues, schools & civic centers.
	www.ginaferrera.com /bio.html (427 words)

	Imaginary Homeland - African instruments ("lunna" talking drums, "guil" xylophones, etc.)
		Each Dagara community tunes its own gyils to match the intonation of their particular linguistic dialect; this gyil was made by master gyil maker Ngmen Barru of Lawra.
		Both Mark and David have studied the gyil and its music in Ghana with master musicians Bernard Woma and Rallio Yiryelle.
		Kparo is a style of rhythmic stick playing employed in gyil music when a musician strikes the lowest two keys of the instrument with the back (wooden) end of his mallets, to create a sharp clicking polyrhythm.
	www.imaginaryhomeland.com /african.htm (490 words)

	My Introduction to the Gyil - BY VALERIE NARANJO
		Gyils are played in pairs during funerals, and recreationally as a solo instrument accompanied by kuar, a hand drum made from a calabash gourd.
		I was then given a pair of mallets and a gyil was placed in front of me. I could then show to them the result of five years of struggle and study from recordings without a teacher.
		Gyil is “the voice of the people” and its range incorporates the vocal range of those who sing with it.
	www.maplewoodonline.com /music/naranjo/intro.shtml (2439 words)

	purevolume™ \| Gina Ferrera & Blended Beat
		As a singer/songwriter Gina began commingling world beat rhythms & her love of the traditional gyil style, together with folk and blues nuances.
		Sunkwa are "pioneers of world music" that commingles exotic traditional instruments like the gyil, kpan logo, djembe and gome drums, and singing songs in languages such as Twi, Dagara, Lobi, English and even Italian.
		As a performer and educator, she has established “Gina’s Gyil & World Music Magic” to conduct workshops & classes at various venues, schools & civic centers.
	www.purevolume.com /ginaferrerablendedbeat/bio (655 words)

	[TaraLee Announce] Updates from TaraLee: 2004 08/21 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The resonators are made from dried gourds, with soundholes covered with vibrating spider webs".And as Valerie Naranjo explains, "The gyil (pronounced JEE-lee or dEE-lee) is their marimbaphone based on the pentatonic scale.
		Its fourteen keys span almost three octaves, and it is played with two large beaters held between the first and second fingers to allow for a huge dynamic range.
		Gyils are played in pairs during funerals, and recreationally as a solo instrument accompanied by kuar, a hand drum made from a calabash gourd." Please join me as I play my songs and the xylophone throughout the next few weeks.
	www.taraleemusic.com /pipermail/taralee-announce/2004/000006.html (458 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		She'd discovered the gyil twenty years earlier, and had studied with Kakara Lobi, one of the masters of the instrument ("the Lobi and Dagary peoples are two of a dozen or fewer tribes who play what's really the gyil.
		Like the balafon, the sound of the gyil is amplified by gourds under the keys, which are struck with mallets.
		In addition to study, she also runs Gina's Gyil, performing and giving workshops all around New York, and is also a member of Afrobeat band Kokolo, who tour around the U.S. and Canada, and recently issued the album More Consideration.
	www.globalvillageidiot.net /ginaferrera.htm (886 words)

	About the Album (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A duet for metallic gyil and ethnic percussion; integrating an interplay of rhythms with warm and dark tambres and bright attacks and tone qualities.
		A solo for the "gyil" (wooden African xylophone).
		Gyil music was taught to Jeffery Woodruff by Bernard Woma.
	www.jefferywoodruff.com /album.html (764 words)

	Aaron Bebe Sukura - Master Xylophonist from Ghana
		He would trace the sound of the gyil, the wooden xylophone played in this area of West Africa, to wherever it was being played.
		Even before he could walk, Aaron would crawl and climb to the xylophone anytime his father was playing, often holding the mallets together with his father as he played.
		Among the Dagara and Lobi peoples of Ghana, the gyil occupies a central place in community life and can be heard at weddings, funerals, dances, and church services.
	www.scientific-african.com /scholars/sukura/sukura.htm (839 words)

	The Hindu Business Line : One goal, different beats
		Gyil, which has its origins in Ghana, is made of wooden boards that rest on a frame over calabash gourds.
		The challenge in introducing gyil and darabuka to an Indian audience or tabla and kanjira to a Western audience lies in presenting the music "on a platform which is recognisable by the people", says Pete.
		A sample of this was evident during the workshop when Pete tried to replicate on the darabuka the mridangam korvais, about which he has studied.
	www.thehindubusinessline.com /bline/2003/04/12/stories/2003041200221800.htm (459 words)

	Bernard Woma - Musical Instrument Importing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		All instruments are produced by the craftsmen who produce instruments for the National Theatre of Ghana and the National University of Ghana at Legon.
		The Dagara xylophone - or "gyil" - is one of the world's most complex and beautiful musical instruments.
		A matching pair of gyil are available for $750, including air mail shipping.
	members.tripod.com /bernardwoma/instruments.html (243 words)

	Bernard Woma - Instruments
		Custom built by the same master craftsman who builds Bernard's xylophones, a 14-key Dagara gyil is available for $400, delivered via air mail.
		A matching pair of 14-key Dagara gyils is available for $800.
		A 12-key Dagara gyil is available for $250.
	www.bernardwoma.com /instruments (255 words)

	WHERE'S THE 1? PRODUCTIONS: Bernard Woma
		A village elder informed him that Bernard's hands indicated that he was destined to become a gyil player.
		Bernard began playing the gyil when he was two years old.
		Occasionally, when he was given free time on Sunday evenings, he played the gyil for traditional dancing in Mamobi, a section of Accra where many Dagara people live and gather.
	www.wheresthe1.com /woma06.html (305 words)

	Gyil at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		At the center of their music is the gyil (pronounced approximately Jee-Lee), an eleven, thirteen, or sixteen...
		Although a special type of gyil is played in pairs at funerals...
		The gyil (pronounced JEE-l or dEE-lee) is their marimbaphone based on the pentatonic scale...
	www.springknow.com /Gyil.html (237 words)

	Liam Teague, hailed as the "Paganini of Pan," currently serves as Research Scholar and Assistant Director of the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Naranjo is a specialist on the Gyil (jee-lee), one of the many existing West African marimbas that is one the grandparents of the western marimba.
		It is believed that the vibration of the bars of the gyil carries the soul from this world to the next, which is why the gyil is the central focus of a funeral ceremony in West Africa.
		These pieces are among a large repertoire for the gyil that has been passed down from father to son for centuries, and has been recently transcribed, arranged, and published by Valerie Naranjo.
	www.patricktanderson.com /homepage/graduate_course_files/Recital/ProgramNotes.htm (956 words)

	Bernard Woma - A Brief Biography
		Consequently, Bernard began playing the gyil when he was two years old.
		Bernard soon became known for his musical abilities and was asked to play at funerals and weddings throughout the Upper West Region of Ghana.
		There, he played the gyil for traditional Dagara dancing and became well-known in the community.
	members.tripod.com /bernardwoma/bio.html (671 words)

	Percussive Marketng Council Presents International Drum Month With Guest Valerie Naranjo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Valerie Dee Naranjo is a marimbist, percussionist, vocalist, composer and musicologist who has dedicated herself to exploring the relationships between indigenous music in Africa and the Americas.
		A Colorado native of Ute and Latin descent, she is a specialist on the Gyil (jee-lee), one of the many existing West African marimbas.
		The gyil is argueably one of our vibraphone and marimba's grandparents.
	www.worldwithoutborders.com /archives/valerienaranjo112102.shtml (851 words)

	CD: "Bernard Woma In Concert" on Jumbie Records
		Virtuosity and live power from the legendary master of the African "gyil" xylophone.
		The most advanced forms of gyil music are performed at funerals and other religious ceremonies.
		In his compositions, Bernard brings together elements of traditional Dagara music with new musical concepts developed as a concert artist playing the gyil on stages throughout the world.
	www.jumbierecords.com /Recordings/bwomalive.html (608 words)

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