The topic akadinda is discussed in the following articles:

African interlocking techniques

  • TITLE: African music
    SECTION: Interlocking
    Triple interlocking is another type, used, for instance, in Zambia in drum music and also in southern Uganda in the music of the akadinda xylophone. Here a group of three musicians plays a short pattern of equally spaced notes in parallel octaves. Three musicians sitting opposite them interlock with another pattern that fits two equally spaced notes between...