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On the Web
- 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.
Wikipedia Articles
- 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.