Add to ORKG1 x - 14.52104 -; 4 x - 14.25103 -; 4 x - 14.02101 -. This set of 9 drums was very carefully tuned before playing particularly the four small goblet drums which were played by one man and were tuned approximately to 840, 672, 568, 464 vs. Between items the drums would be taken to a fire, wetted and returned by heat, but naturally the tuning can only be approximately correct. If the above tuning was correct the intervals would be approximately 386, 291, 350 cents or about a 7th in all. The drums were made from wood of the Mukongo tree. Madogoli dance song for men and women, with 5 Goblet pegged and footed drums, 4 cylindrical pegged drums and tin rattles (-12.54-)
Mambala dance with 4 goblet drums, closed, pinned, weighted, with mirlitons and 4 singing gourds (-1...
Likembe songs such as this are the delight of the evening audiences in the huts at night. The subtle...
Indigenous folk drum rhythms, with 2 conical drums, 5 laced and closed cylindrical drums with wooden...
In this recording the rhythm of the four small goblet drums set against the single bass drum can be ...
The clear sound of these drums suggests metal rather than membrane tone. The membranes had been tigh...
The approximate sizes of the drums were:- Ntamivu, big drum, 25 inches across, 37 inches tall. Naku,...
The drummers first went away, gathered some swathes of grass in order to make a fire to heat drum me...
The tune is based upon a song which says that Kalagala was a chief in Busoga who caught and killed t...
The leader plays five and sometimes six drums, the next plays numbers' six and seven, and two player...
The four drums used were 1) Mutumba, an open conical drum 37" tall, 11" membrane; 2) Jenje, an open ...
The four drummers were the chief singers together with their women. Malimba 2 xylophones, on frames ...
The story behind this tune is about a certain 'Saza' chief named Kangawo who wore as a charm a headb...
This drum tune is taken from a song about a simple country lad who wanted to go and work for the Kab...
The tuning of the horns seems to be entirely hapharzard and is controlled by the fortuitous length a...
The whole set of drums should have been conical laced drums of the same shape but varying in pitch. ...
Mambala dance with 4 goblet drums, closed, pinned, weighted, with mirlitons and 4 singing gourds (-1...
Likembe songs such as this are the delight of the evening audiences in the huts at night. The subtle...
Indigenous folk drum rhythms, with 2 conical drums, 5 laced and closed cylindrical drums with wooden...
In this recording the rhythm of the four small goblet drums set against the single bass drum can be ...
The clear sound of these drums suggests metal rather than membrane tone. The membranes had been tigh...
The approximate sizes of the drums were:- Ntamivu, big drum, 25 inches across, 37 inches tall. Naku,...
The drummers first went away, gathered some swathes of grass in order to make a fire to heat drum me...
The tune is based upon a song which says that Kalagala was a chief in Busoga who caught and killed t...
The leader plays five and sometimes six drums, the next plays numbers' six and seven, and two player...
The four drums used were 1) Mutumba, an open conical drum 37" tall, 11" membrane; 2) Jenje, an open ...
The four drummers were the chief singers together with their women. Malimba 2 xylophones, on frames ...
The story behind this tune is about a certain 'Saza' chief named Kangawo who wore as a charm a headb...
This drum tune is taken from a song about a simple country lad who wanted to go and work for the Kab...
The tuning of the horns seems to be entirely hapharzard and is controlled by the fortuitous length a...
The whole set of drums should have been conical laced drums of the same shape but varying in pitch. ...
Mambala dance with 4 goblet drums, closed, pinned, weighted, with mirlitons and 4 singing gourds (-1...
Likembe songs such as this are the delight of the evening audiences in the huts at night. The subtle...
Indigenous folk drum rhythms, with 2 conical drums, 5 laced and closed cylindrical drums with wooden...