Acholi Instruments
Nanga
The traditional rectangular trough zither at which Watmon is so proficient and which are used to accompany some of the oldest and most important songs of the Acoli people.
Lukeme
The Acoli version of the ubiquitous lamellaphone (thumb-piano). These are box-resonated and (like the mbira of Zimbabwe) have a double-rank of keys and come in four sizes from Min Lukeme (mother of Lukeme) - the Bass to the tiny Olang bell.
Adungu
This used to be the name for a woman's instrument - a small musical bow with one string stretched across the arch three times and held over a half-calabash for resonance while being plucked to accompany one's singing. Nowadays however, Adungu is used for the several sizes of arched harp borrowed ftom the Alur, close neighbours of the Acoli and played in consort to accompany singing. Unlike other Acoli instruments it is tuned to the european 7-note scale and can be used to provide richly decorated harmonic accompaniments somewhat resembling Congolese guitar music.
Other Instruments
Drumming accompanies the 'royal' Bwola dance and Dingi-dingi girls' dance which also calls for at least two notched four-hole flutes of bamboo or (nowadays) plastic or aluminium. The Lamoko-wang [or larakaraka] creative dance is accompanied by the sound of large hemispherical gourds struck with wire brushes and any of the dances can be enlivened by the piercing sounds of bit cone-shaped flutes or animal-horn trumpets.