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Festival Shekeres - Step-by-step instructions for shekere making, with color close-up photos of details in shekere design.
Shekere: Make and Shake - History, construction, and how to play the shekere.
FamilyFun: Shake Your Own Shekere - Instructions on making a shekere from a plastic jug and beads.
Anton Sheker's Online Gallery - Online Folio of Professional Photographer Anton Sheker
How to Make A Sheker - Steve Tierra provides detailed instructions on how to make the instrument from a gourd.
Motherland Music - Importers of African drums and other musical instruments, African bells, bata, conga, djembe, djundjun, kpanlogo shekere. Sales, classes, and repair.
Keur Djembe African Drum Shop - Drum Shop in Brooklyn selling hand-crafted african drums and instruments. Djembe, sabar, djun djun, talking drum, balafon, shekere, calimba, kora. We specialize in djembe repairs and classes. Also, drum bags and other accessories are available.
Shake and Rattle - Hand-crafted shekeres created using gourds and other natural materials. Items can be customized with different finishes and bead designs.
David Romero - Hand-crafted shekere's and collapsable rainstick for sale by artist David Romero.
Motherland Music - Importers of African drums and other musical instruments, African bells, bata, conga, djembe, djundjun, kpanlogo shekere. Sales, classes, and repair. Located in California, United States.

Shekere - The shekere is a percussion instrument from Africa, consisting of a dried gourd with beads woven into a net covering the gourd. Throughout the continent it is called different things, such as the lilolo, axatse (Ghana), and chequere.
Cabasa - The Cabasa, similar to the shekere, is a percussion instrument that is constructed with loops of steel ball chain wrapped around a wide cylinder. The cylinder is fixed to a long, narrow wooden or plastic handle.