Add to ORKGThe instrument was played inside a somewhat broken gourd. The player said his mother was a Nyungwe and his father came from Cenelimane. Topical song with Sanzi mbira bell
The player has taken a Nyasa instrument instead of the local Njari. He explained he found the smalle...
Eriya Bakwasa is an expert on the playing of the traditional horizontal harp. In this song he sings ...
"In your heart (litt. in your chest.") This tune they said, is played at any time and on any occassi...
He says the instrument he plays belonged to his father who lived South of the Zambezi near Sena, but...
An unusaual example of a young Karanga boy playing a Kalimba Mbira instead of the Njari played by hi...
He says the instrument he plays belonged to his father who lived South of the Zambezi near Sena, but...
The player was a man about 55 years. His father taught him to play the instrument as a child. Tuning...
"My wife, Namulenga, I did not marry you for your beauty. Cook some food now, the cock has already c...
These Ngombi Likembe (Mbira) are played with the instrument slung from the players shoulders. They a...
The instrument was re-tuned for this song at a slightly higher pitch than for some of his other song...
The singer's upper front teeth were filed. Towards the end of the first item, one string went out of...
"Nyankabila lost himself in a far off land. His father longs for his return." This shape of the inst...
The Kalimba, they say, is a comparatively new to this district and people. They have recently begun ...
"People should not visit their friends without cause as Mgelimembe does." It appears this man Mgelim...
This was recorded at the Wankie Colliery in Southern Rhodesia where the player had gone to work. Sel...
The player has taken a Nyasa instrument instead of the local Njari. He explained he found the smalle...
Eriya Bakwasa is an expert on the playing of the traditional horizontal harp. In this song he sings ...
"In your heart (litt. in your chest.") This tune they said, is played at any time and on any occassi...
He says the instrument he plays belonged to his father who lived South of the Zambezi near Sena, but...
An unusaual example of a young Karanga boy playing a Kalimba Mbira instead of the Njari played by hi...
He says the instrument he plays belonged to his father who lived South of the Zambezi near Sena, but...
The player was a man about 55 years. His father taught him to play the instrument as a child. Tuning...
"My wife, Namulenga, I did not marry you for your beauty. Cook some food now, the cock has already c...
These Ngombi Likembe (Mbira) are played with the instrument slung from the players shoulders. They a...
The instrument was re-tuned for this song at a slightly higher pitch than for some of his other song...
The singer's upper front teeth were filed. Towards the end of the first item, one string went out of...
"Nyankabila lost himself in a far off land. His father longs for his return." This shape of the inst...
The Kalimba, they say, is a comparatively new to this district and people. They have recently begun ...
"People should not visit their friends without cause as Mgelimembe does." It appears this man Mgelim...
This was recorded at the Wankie Colliery in Southern Rhodesia where the player had gone to work. Sel...
The player has taken a Nyasa instrument instead of the local Njari. He explained he found the smalle...
Eriya Bakwasa is an expert on the playing of the traditional horizontal harp. In this song he sings ...
"In your heart (litt. in your chest.") This tune they said, is played at any time and on any occassi...