Folk music includes a multitude of instruments with different timbres, the quality of sound that distinguishes instruments from one another, to express different messages. Examples of these instruments are the djembe, kora, fiddle, tambourine, and banjo. At times, slaves were prohibited from using instruments of loud timbres by slaveowners for fear of communication between one another. Due to this, different methods were developed. Slaves used the instruments of their hands and voice to create pattin’ juba, hamboning, and field hollers.