Folk music has many different forms using various types of instruments, techniques, and rhythms. Instruments like the banjo, djembe, and bones are some of the instruments that were used to make folk music. The banjo is the most known instrument in folk music because many old and new folk songs are played using the banjo. Though the banjo was created in Africa (banjar), Africans continued to make them once they became slaves in America taking on the name banjo. The banjo was a stringed instrument similar to a guitar and is made of wood, twine, and animal hide. The slaves had to learn the songs their masters wanted them to play on the banjo. Therefore, instead of playing their own traditional folk tunes they began to play the folk songs of their white masters. Another technique connected to folk music is the hambone. The hambone is the action of using the body as a drum. This technique was also created by African Americans using their hands to slap parts of their body to create sound while stomping their feet and singing the folk tunes.