The Ketuba 8 string lyre has the same order of notes as the Thum played by the luo people to the west near the lake Victoria. The first and second strings are duplicated by the seveth and eigth. The singer extrolls the finess of the places and people in his district. Praise song with Ketuba 8 string bowl lyre (-10.621 x 8-)
The singer like most Kipsigis, hisses in between verses. He mocks the uncircumcised and people who d...
The Nandi, like the Kipsigis their relatives, are given to singing praise songs about people and pla...
Morality song accompanied by the Ntongoli 8 string lyre and Ndingidi 1 string lut
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...
Praise song accompanied by a Chepkongo 6 string bowl lyre and a Ketuba 8 string bowl lyr
This lyre is strummed like a guitar with the right hand, the left hand stopping the five strings, li...
This lyre is strummed like a guitar with the right hand, the left hand stopping the five strings, li...
"People born in Uganda should love each other." The tuning with the Endongo lyre in the order of str...
This kind of song is a favourite with the Kipsigis tribe in which they praise their friends, the cou...
The lyre was played horizontally with the right hand plucking the group of four strings and near the...
The player flips the bridge of the lyre with a finger tip as he plays. The song is largely a repetit...
The strings of the short lyre are only 13", those of the long are 28"-30". This song was composed in...
The term ndongo refers to the eight-string bowl lyre of the Baganda, a people that live in the south...
"When Onyiego Obara invited me to play my lyre at his house there was a large audience. I was surpri...
The singer like most Kipsigis, hisses in between verses. He mocks the uncircumcised and people who d...
The Nandi, like the Kipsigis their relatives, are given to singing praise songs about people and pla...
Morality song accompanied by the Ntongoli 8 string lyre and Ndingidi 1 string lut
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...
Praise song accompanied by a Chepkongo 6 string bowl lyre and a Ketuba 8 string bowl lyr
This lyre is strummed like a guitar with the right hand, the left hand stopping the five strings, li...
This lyre is strummed like a guitar with the right hand, the left hand stopping the five strings, li...
"People born in Uganda should love each other." The tuning with the Endongo lyre in the order of str...
This kind of song is a favourite with the Kipsigis tribe in which they praise their friends, the cou...
The lyre was played horizontally with the right hand plucking the group of four strings and near the...
The player flips the bridge of the lyre with a finger tip as he plays. The song is largely a repetit...
The strings of the short lyre are only 13", those of the long are 28"-30". This song was composed in...
The term ndongo refers to the eight-string bowl lyre of the Baganda, a people that live in the south...
"When Onyiego Obara invited me to play my lyre at his house there was a large audience. I was surpri...
The singer like most Kipsigis, hisses in between verses. He mocks the uncircumcised and people who d...
The Nandi, like the Kipsigis their relatives, are given to singing praise songs about people and pla...
Morality song accompanied by the Ntongoli 8 string lyre and Ndingidi 1 string lut