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In African music, the calabash is a percussion instrument of the family of 
Video with calabash players
Idiophones African musical instruments {{Idiophone-instrument-stub
idiophones
An idiophone is any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the vibration of the instrument itself, without the use of air flow (as with aerophones), strings (chordophones), membranes (membranophones) or electricity ( electrophones ...
consisting of a half of a large calabash
Calabash (; ''Lagenaria siceraria''), also known as bottle gourd, white-flowered gourd, long melon, birdhouse gourd, New Guinea bean, Tasmania bean, and opo squash, is a vine grown for its fruit. It can be either harvested young to be consumed ...
, which is struck with the palms, fingers, wrist or objects to produce a variety of percussive sounds.
In Tuareg music, the ''askalabo'' is a calabash "partly submerged in water, drummed to mimic camels' hooves".
The calabash can also be used as a sound board: a finger piano (a flat board with a bridge on which prongs are fastened, that are then played with the fingers) can use a calabash for that purpose, and the gongoma is a similar instrument, using saw blades on a bridge affixed over the calabash—the blades are plucked with the fingers, while the player taps the calabash with their other hand.
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Video with calabash players
Idiophones African musical instruments {{Idiophone-instrument-stub