EXPANDING MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS’ CAPABILITIES TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF MUSIC EDUCATION IN NIGERIA

Abstract

Nigeria and indeed Africa as a continent, has an array of musical instruments that can fully serve the musical demands of her citizens, but still the continent is considered as lacking enough musical instruments that would fully punctuate and expose her rich but changing musical tradition. The reason for this is due to the fact that most of her musical instruments are of indefinite pitches with limited instruments capable of producing few notes. This paucity of melody instruments is not only a handicap to the modern style of singing but also negates the global principle of moving at reasonable pace with development and changing needs of the society.