"I will not have anything to do with beer." This old well meaning phrase rings all too hollow in any language and the audience responded in time honoured ribaldry. 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
"I cannot marry a Luvale girl, or a Shona, because they put on ties. Their only duty is to cut grass...
"Drinking doesn't agree with me, when I'm drunk I can't stop talking. I tell everything." The impecc...
This strange and rather unmusical instrument is a plain J shaped bow of round section. The long arm ...
Eriya Bakwasa is an expert on the playing of the traditional horizontal harp. In this song he sings ...
Cotton id one of the best cash crops in this most fertile district and this song concerns the cotton...
"I am afraid of being beaten." The instrument is the 5 stringed Bonguma horizontal, arched harp, the...
Topical song with five string Adedeu horizontal harp, clapping and leg rattles and 1 side blown Alut...
"Wherever he went he found people talking ill of him.Why, he asks, should they do so about an innoce...
"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...
It is interesting to note the apparent differences in tone between the scale of the harp and the voi...
"A mouse came to my house and stole the food from my pot." The singer yodells in typically African f...
"I loved a girl but she did not behave well, so now I love her no longer." The instrument is the 5 s...
Unlike most harps of this design, this one was held upright with the point of the body on the perfor...
This strange and rather unmusical instrument is a plain J shaped bow of round section. The long arm ...
"I cannot marry a Luvale girl, or a Shona, because they put on ties. Their only duty is to cut grass...
"Drinking doesn't agree with me, when I'm drunk I can't stop talking. I tell everything." The impecc...
This strange and rather unmusical instrument is a plain J shaped bow of round section. The long arm ...
Eriya Bakwasa is an expert on the playing of the traditional horizontal harp. In this song he sings ...
Cotton id one of the best cash crops in this most fertile district and this song concerns the cotton...
"I am afraid of being beaten." The instrument is the 5 stringed Bonguma horizontal, arched harp, the...
Topical song with five string Adedeu horizontal harp, clapping and leg rattles and 1 side blown Alut...
"Wherever he went he found people talking ill of him.Why, he asks, should they do so about an innoce...
"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...
It is interesting to note the apparent differences in tone between the scale of the harp and the voi...
"A mouse came to my house and stole the food from my pot." The singer yodells in typically African f...
"I loved a girl but she did not behave well, so now I love her no longer." The instrument is the 5 s...
Unlike most harps of this design, this one was held upright with the point of the body on the perfor...
This strange and rather unmusical instrument is a plain J shaped bow of round section. The long arm ...
"I cannot marry a Luvale girl, or a Shona, because they put on ties. Their only duty is to cut grass...
"Drinking doesn't agree with me, when I'm drunk I can't stop talking. I tell everything." The impecc...
This strange and rather unmusical instrument is a plain J shaped bow of round section. The long arm ...