Folk music

Ensembles using the dundun play a type of music that is also called dundun. These ensembles consist of various sizes of tension drums along with special band drums (ogido). The leader of a dundun ensemble is the oniyalu who uses the drum to "talk" by imitating the tonality of Yoruba. Much of Yoruba music is spiritual in nature, and is devoted to the Orisas of Yoruba mythology.

Folk instruments

• agbe: a shaker
• ashiko: a cone-shaped drum
• apesin:
• agidigbo: a sort of thumb piano
• bata: a well decorated traditional drum of many tones
• dundun: comprising of "iya ilu", main drum and "omele", smaller accompanying drums
• goje: sort of violin like the sahelian kora
• bembe: sort of band drum a la kettle drum
• sekere: a melodic shaker; beads or cowrie shells beautifully wound around a gourd
• saworo: like agogo, but its tone is low-pitched
• omele: a smaller, two-pronged, bata
• kannango:
• gbedu: another name for dundun or iya ilu
• gudugudu: a smaller, melodic bata
• sakara: goat skin is stretched over a clay ring to form a percussive drum
• agogo: a high-pitched tone instrument like a "covered" 3-dimensional "tuning fork"
• aro: much like a saworo
• seli: a combination of aro, saworo and hand-claping,