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Long trumpets of northern Nigeria - in history and today

wooden trumpet ... the lower end (of which) bulges out as the ramrod of great gun (Oudney, in Denham and Clapperton 1826:301) a thin conical tube, made of two or three sections .., rather large bell, and bulging rings that mark the beginning of each section (Sachs 1940:210). A visitor arriving at Kano International Airport in northern Nigeria on the same flight as local V.I.P.2 may find himself greeted by blast on an instrument which, at first sight, suggests an elongated European hunting horn or that used by postillions of eighteenth century stage-coaches. It may remind him of the long, strai…