Classification of music instruments reflects cultural growth: Muchinga

RESPECTED music teacher and choral conductor Lincoln Muchinga believes that a people’s classification of music instruments reflects not only enlightenment, but is a testimony of the development of a people’s social life and culture at large.

Muchinga recently returned from Turkey where he says he became more informed about cultural diversity, which has deepened his interest in music instruments playing and making.

Delivering a workshop lesson to teachers and primary school students at the Music Consultancy Society recently, he said classification of Western music instruments was a knowledge base that was imparted to children so that they know about the instruments surrounding them.

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