Cotton id one of the best cash crops in this most fertile district and this song concerns the cotton ginnery of Kyabora which is run by an Indian. 'The machine Kyaboro' he call it. The harp is made of a simple oval shaped wooden bowl with skins laced onto top and bottom. The arch of the keys is a stout carved stick in which the 8 pegs are inserted for tightening the strings. The tuning of the harp is as follows:- 322, 284, 240, 180, 161, 142, 120 vs. Topical song with Ekidongo eight string horizontal harp
Unlike most harps of this design, this one was held upright with the point of the body on the perfor...
The tuning of this little Nile valley harp is interesting, viz:- 396, 324, 292, 252, 224, vs. as it ...
The story, of Ganga, one of a previous Kabaka's palace guards who 'stole some meat' and had the firs...
Cotton id one of the best cash crops in this most fertile district and this song concerns the cotton...
Eriya Bakwasa is an expert on the playing of the traditional horizontal harp. In this song he sings ...
"There was a certain magician who declared that a lion could be killed by the bare hands alone. No o...
The Ekidongo harp is a pleasing instrument in the hands of an expert. This man Eriya Bakwasa is a pr...
"A mouse came to my house and stole the food from my pot." The singer yodells in typically African f...
"I will not have anything to do with beer." This old well meaning phrase rings all too hollow in any...
The term ndongo refers to the eight-string bowl lyre of the Baganda, a people that live in the south...
"I am afraid of being beaten." The instrument is the 5 stringed Bonguma horizontal, arched harp, the...
"I made this song for a friend who was not my brother." The tuning of the harp was:- 352, 324, 288, ...
Topical song with five string Adedeu horizontal harp, clapping and leg rattles and 1 side blown Alut...
It is interesting to note the apparent differences in tone between the scale of the harp and the voi...
The nnanga is a bowed-neck harp found in the Buganda kingdom, located on Lake Victoria in southern U...
Unlike most harps of this design, this one was held upright with the point of the body on the perfor...
The tuning of this little Nile valley harp is interesting, viz:- 396, 324, 292, 252, 224, vs. as it ...
The story, of Ganga, one of a previous Kabaka's palace guards who 'stole some meat' and had the firs...
Cotton id one of the best cash crops in this most fertile district and this song concerns the cotton...
Eriya Bakwasa is an expert on the playing of the traditional horizontal harp. In this song he sings ...
"There was a certain magician who declared that a lion could be killed by the bare hands alone. No o...
The Ekidongo harp is a pleasing instrument in the hands of an expert. This man Eriya Bakwasa is a pr...
"A mouse came to my house and stole the food from my pot." The singer yodells in typically African f...
"I will not have anything to do with beer." This old well meaning phrase rings all too hollow in any...
The term ndongo refers to the eight-string bowl lyre of the Baganda, a people that live in the south...
"I am afraid of being beaten." The instrument is the 5 stringed Bonguma horizontal, arched harp, the...
"I made this song for a friend who was not my brother." The tuning of the harp was:- 352, 324, 288, ...
Topical song with five string Adedeu horizontal harp, clapping and leg rattles and 1 side blown Alut...
It is interesting to note the apparent differences in tone between the scale of the harp and the voi...
The nnanga is a bowed-neck harp found in the Buganda kingdom, located on Lake Victoria in southern U...
Unlike most harps of this design, this one was held upright with the point of the body on the perfor...
The tuning of this little Nile valley harp is interesting, viz:- 396, 324, 292, 252, 224, vs. as it ...
The story, of Ganga, one of a previous Kabaka's palace guards who 'stole some meat' and had the firs...