Gyil Music of Ghana

The gyil is the the pentatonic xylophone of Ghana.

The transcriptions used to create the following MIDI files are taken from the book Xylophone Music from Ghana by Trevor Wiggins and Joseph Kobom. It is published by White Cliffs Media. This is a very good book, it's only fault being that it is too brief.
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