A Musical Culture Realm: Intersting!

After searching the web for African flutes, I found myself slightly dissapointed. I could not find any decent pictures, but I did find this website with a free recording of african flutes. The sound of the wooden flute is much warmer and soft than metal. The timbre is quite unique and amazing. I greatly enjoy listening to suttle tones and melodies of the flutes. http://www.goodnoise.com/album/Various-Artists-African-Flutes-Gambia-MP3-Download/11004418.html

Continuing my search for pictures of African instruments, I found the website below. On here it has a picture and brief description of the Akadinda which looked similiar to an instrument shown by Dr. Weeks. It appears to resemebe our modern day marimba. It can be played by up to six people simultaneously who sit on opposite sides of each other. The instrument is popular with the Baganda people of Uganda. Other instruments are displayed on this website such as the nyanga pan pipes and xhosa uhadi bows.
http://www.kalimba.co.za/african%20instruments.htm

I was much more successful with Native American flutes. The first picture below is the one that I like the most because it shows a variety of wooden flutes. All have only six open holes with a bump right before their head. The second picture interested me because of the combination of instruments within the same picture and the artistic carved wooden bird nodule more appearent on this flute. Here both a woden recorder like instrument in grouped with pan flute like instruments as well as a thumb bell which true name I am slightly confused about having seen several names. However, I was not expecting this to be with Native Americans but rather just with Africa. I find the connection of musical instruments with cultures quite distant to be quite a fascinating discovery.