Add to ORKGThese long armed lyres are played flat with the bowl resting on the legs or ground and the arms extending away from the players. The left hand plays the four lower notes, the right the higher three. The Luhengele is played with two pairs of double sticks, and is an inverted bowl of platter. The song recalls the bravery of Kaloi who encouraged his fellow soilders in the fight even though he himself was wounded and lying on one hip
The player was seated holding the lyre with the strings extending towards the right and played his l...
"When Onyiego Obara invited me to play my lyre at his house there was a large audience. I was surpri...
Heroic song accompanied by the Indongoli 8 string short lyre and Tsindeche leg bell
This lyre is strummed like a guitar with the right hand, the left hand stopping the five strings, li...
The Itungu found in the country is a bowl lyre, but this instrument was a box lyre made from scraps ...
This lyre is strummed like a guitar with the right hand, the left hand stopping the five strings, li...
This lyre is strummed and fingered like the Bangwe zither of Nyasaland. The right hand strums the st...
The player flips the bridge of the lyre with a finger tip as he plays. The song is largely a repetit...
The lyre starts the item with the two lutes following and the drummer adding his hand beats before t...
The strings of the short lyre are only 13", those of the long are 28"-30". This song was composed in...
Fighting song accompanied by 2 Litungu 7 string lyres and 1 Luhingele long inverted bow
One of the royal bands, the flautist, failed upon a certain occasion in their musical duties at the ...
This lyre is strummed like a guitar with the right hand, the left hand stopping the five strings, li...
The lyre was played horizontally with the right hand plucking the group of four strings and near the...
The Ketuba 8 string lyre has the same order of notes as the Thum played by the luo people to the wes...
The player was seated holding the lyre with the strings extending towards the right and played his l...
"When Onyiego Obara invited me to play my lyre at his house there was a large audience. I was surpri...
Heroic song accompanied by the Indongoli 8 string short lyre and Tsindeche leg bell
This lyre is strummed like a guitar with the right hand, the left hand stopping the five strings, li...
The Itungu found in the country is a bowl lyre, but this instrument was a box lyre made from scraps ...
This lyre is strummed like a guitar with the right hand, the left hand stopping the five strings, li...
This lyre is strummed and fingered like the Bangwe zither of Nyasaland. The right hand strums the st...
The player flips the bridge of the lyre with a finger tip as he plays. The song is largely a repetit...
The lyre starts the item with the two lutes following and the drummer adding his hand beats before t...
The strings of the short lyre are only 13", those of the long are 28"-30". This song was composed in...
Fighting song accompanied by 2 Litungu 7 string lyres and 1 Luhingele long inverted bow
One of the royal bands, the flautist, failed upon a certain occasion in their musical duties at the ...
This lyre is strummed like a guitar with the right hand, the left hand stopping the five strings, li...
The lyre was played horizontally with the right hand plucking the group of four strings and near the...
The Ketuba 8 string lyre has the same order of notes as the Thum played by the luo people to the wes...
The player was seated holding the lyre with the strings extending towards the right and played his l...
"When Onyiego Obara invited me to play my lyre at his house there was a large audience. I was surpri...
Heroic song accompanied by the Indongoli 8 string short lyre and Tsindeche leg bell