Add to ORKG"My wife, Namulenga, I did not marry you for your beauty. Cook some food now, the cock has already crowed." The player was blind and his wife sat beside him tapping the back of his instrument with a stick and singing. He himself held his Mumamba on the ground and beat the base of it with his right knee as he played. Tuning of the instrument as follows:- 368, 340, 308, 280, 252, 232, 210, 190, 170, 154, 140 vps. Nfunkutu dance song with Mumamba mbira bell
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"The wife of Mr. so-and-so, does not eat dry meat." During the songs the women clapped their hands o...
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The player has taken a Nyasa instrument instead of the local Njari. He explained he found the smalle...
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