This set of drums is played when there is a special ceremonial gathering such as the opening of the Bunyoro Council, or on the first day of the new moon. It may also be played at other times. The royal Hima houses of Uganda are all drum minded, with special drums exclusively associated with royalty and royal occasions. Drum rhythm, with four conical drums, laced, closed, played with sticks, and two long stemmed Goblet drums, open, pinned, footed
Nyamwanga was a Hima king of Ankole who used to raid the Ganda people of the lake districts before 1...
The story behind this tune is about a certain 'Saza' chief named Kangawo who wore as a charm a headb...
Indigenous folk drum rhythms, with 2 conical drums, 5 laced and closed cylindrical drums with wooden...
This drum tune is taken from a song about a simple country lad who wanted to go and work for the Kab...
At the time when cotton was first introduced into Uganda (largely by the efforts of an indsutrial mi...
The greater African chiefs would, in the old days, always have their court musicians to perform spec...
There are exactly four types of Tsonga drum, and four types of bow, and the prevalence of their soun...
The little drums, with membranes of iguana, water lizard, skin are most musical and respond to every...
The drums are not the normal drums used in Ruanda (Rwanda) but substitutes. The timekeeper was playi...
The Pygmies of the forest borrow the instruments of the Bantu people outside. They have few if any i...
The four drummers were the chief singers together with their women. Malimba 2 xylophones, on frames ...
The whole set of drums should have been conical laced drums of the same shape but varying in pitch. ...
The drums are not the normal drums used in Ruanda (Rwanda) but substitutes. The timekeeper was playi...
Indigenous folk drum rhythms, with 2 conical drums, 5 laced and closed cylindrical drums with wooden...
After the kingdoms of Uganda were abolished in 1967, the royal music and dance of Bunyoro-Kitara kin...
Nyamwanga was a Hima king of Ankole who used to raid the Ganda people of the lake districts before 1...
The story behind this tune is about a certain 'Saza' chief named Kangawo who wore as a charm a headb...
Indigenous folk drum rhythms, with 2 conical drums, 5 laced and closed cylindrical drums with wooden...
This drum tune is taken from a song about a simple country lad who wanted to go and work for the Kab...
At the time when cotton was first introduced into Uganda (largely by the efforts of an indsutrial mi...
The greater African chiefs would, in the old days, always have their court musicians to perform spec...
There are exactly four types of Tsonga drum, and four types of bow, and the prevalence of their soun...
The little drums, with membranes of iguana, water lizard, skin are most musical and respond to every...
The drums are not the normal drums used in Ruanda (Rwanda) but substitutes. The timekeeper was playi...
The Pygmies of the forest borrow the instruments of the Bantu people outside. They have few if any i...
The four drummers were the chief singers together with their women. Malimba 2 xylophones, on frames ...
The whole set of drums should have been conical laced drums of the same shape but varying in pitch. ...
The drums are not the normal drums used in Ruanda (Rwanda) but substitutes. The timekeeper was playi...
Indigenous folk drum rhythms, with 2 conical drums, 5 laced and closed cylindrical drums with wooden...
After the kingdoms of Uganda were abolished in 1967, the royal music and dance of Bunyoro-Kitara kin...
Nyamwanga was a Hima king of Ankole who used to raid the Ganda people of the lake districts before 1...
The story behind this tune is about a certain 'Saza' chief named Kangawo who wore as a charm a headb...
Indigenous folk drum rhythms, with 2 conical drums, 5 laced and closed cylindrical drums with wooden...