Musical instruments: topics

Both in the 1980s and in the 2000s more than 80% of the people in Chibale played one or more musical instruments.
A strict separation between instruments played by women or by men, sometimes found in literature about music in Africa, is not found back in Chibale musical practice.

Still remembered by a few is an ensemble of three masamba ing’omba (ing’omba sha masamba) that roamed the area in the first part of the previous century and made a living out of their playing.