Another element brought to America by Africans and carried over by African-Americans was their instruments. After the Africans were forced to America, they began to use a variety of instruments for folk music. A few of these instruments were the banjo, bones, tambourine, kora, fiddle, and djembe. The djembe is a type of drum and consists of three sounds: bass, tone, and slap. As previously stated, the style of hambone was also like an instrument in itself. Country music was influenced by folk today because like folk, the genre of country uses mostly string instruments. Although it is not depicted by the media, it is important to know where these instruments originated from.