The story behind this tune is about a certain 'Saza' chief named Kangawo who wore as a charm a headband. He would wear it all day and at night hang it up on the wall of his hut. One night the headband was stolen and he soon died without his protective charm. Six drummers play these 15 drums. Four the main set of 12 drums, and two others the three bass drums. The melody of the tune is well brought out both at the beginning and the end of the performance. Drum tunes. Set of 15 Entenga tuned conical drums, laced, closed, single
"I will go towards Nyantungu until I reach Kaluguyu." Four men and women were playing the one drum, ...
This set of drums is played when there is a special ceremonial gathering such as the opening of the ...
The slit drum is called mutumba (the canoe) and the cylindrical drum is Nguma. This group is situate...
This drum tune is taken from a song about a simple country lad who wanted to go and work for the Kab...
One of the royal bands, the flautist, failed upon a certain occasion in their musical duties at the ...
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There was once a rich man called Sematimba Kikwabanga who had a large herd of gaots, but he never sl...
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1 x - 14.52104 -; 4 x - 14.25103 -; 4 x - 14.02101 -. This set of 9 drums was very carefully tuned b...
This song, they say, was used on the occasion of the installation on March 3rd 1948 of Chief N. S. F...
In this recording the rhythm of the four small goblet drums set against the single bass drum can be ...
The four drummers were the chief singers together with their women. Malimba 2 xylophones, on frames ...
The slit drum is called mutumba (the canoe) and the cylindrical drum is Nguma. This group is situate...
The drums are not the normal drums used in Ruanda (Rwanda) but substitutes. The timekeeper was playi...
"I will go towards Nyantungu until I reach Kaluguyu." Four men and women were playing the one drum, ...
This set of drums is played when there is a special ceremonial gathering such as the opening of the ...
The slit drum is called mutumba (the canoe) and the cylindrical drum is Nguma. This group is situate...
This drum tune is taken from a song about a simple country lad who wanted to go and work for the Kab...
One of the royal bands, the flautist, failed upon a certain occasion in their musical duties at the ...
The tune is based upon a song which says that Kalagala was a chief in Busoga who caught and killed t...
There was once a rich man called Sematimba Kikwabanga who had a large herd of gaots, but he never sl...
The whole set of drums should have been conical laced drums of the same shape but varying in pitch. ...
At the time when cotton was first introduced into Uganda (largely by the efforts of an indsutrial mi...
1 x - 14.52104 -; 4 x - 14.25103 -; 4 x - 14.02101 -. This set of 9 drums was very carefully tuned b...
This song, they say, was used on the occasion of the installation on March 3rd 1948 of Chief N. S. F...
In this recording the rhythm of the four small goblet drums set against the single bass drum can be ...
The four drummers were the chief singers together with their women. Malimba 2 xylophones, on frames ...
The slit drum is called mutumba (the canoe) and the cylindrical drum is Nguma. This group is situate...
The drums are not the normal drums used in Ruanda (Rwanda) but substitutes. The timekeeper was playi...
"I will go towards Nyantungu until I reach Kaluguyu." Four men and women were playing the one drum, ...
This set of drums is played when there is a special ceremonial gathering such as the opening of the ...
The slit drum is called mutumba (the canoe) and the cylindrical drum is Nguma. This group is situate...