Talk:Garaya (lute)
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Identification of main photo, characteristics of instrument
[edit]The main photo [:File:Garaya.jpg]] illustrates the challenges of writing about musical instruments of other cultures. The photographer identified the gourd bodied instrument as a Garaya from Nigeria, with a tag of Fulani people. The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments identified the Garaya as being a wooden bodied instrument of the Hausa people. A more recent work of scholarship in Banjo Roots and Branches identified the fact that both groups have a garaya. The Hausa have a wooden bodied instrument, the Fulani a gourd bodied instrument. However that book says the instrument is semi spiked (meaning that it should not have a stick going through both sides of the gourd.
This is a "Non Griot Artisan and Folk" instrument, according to Banjo Roots and Branches, which means that a person making their own garaya may not stick to a formula. I think that we need to stick to the photographer's original information (gotten from his subjects). This is a Fulani person playing a version of the Fulani instrument. I will relabel it in that way, unless someone objects. Jacqke (talk) 00:42, 3 September 2024 (UTC)