A certain Gombolola chief named Mulavu is said to have ordered his people to uproot the groundnuts and other crops of the people nearby. They naturally objected, and reported him first to the Saza county chief and then to the District Commissioner who severly reprimanded him. The tuning of the instrument was, 248, 220, 202, 174, 144, 130, 110, 101 but the order of the notes themselves on the instrument does not follow the sequence of the scale. Topical song, with Ntongoli 8 string lyre
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Topical folk song by Evaristo Muyinda and Yakobo Ssweakirya, accompanied by 2 endongo eight stringed...
The longest note of the xylophone was 35 inches and the shortest 24 inches, the average widith of ea...
"Ihubo", the song of the Mahindani Regiment. The Paramount Chief Sibuya has not done right in allowi...
The instrument was re-tuned for this song at a slightly higher pitch than for some of his other song...
There was once a well known theif in this district called Gavumba. He is held up as a bad example wh...
This is a song about a Gekko lizard. The lizard, he says, is a harmless animal, it does not eat food...
The old chief Mumia would not allow to mention the name of the head of the other branch of the famil...
"Wherever he went he found people talking ill of him.Why, he asks, should they do so about an innoce...
Likembe songs such as this are the delight of the evening audiences in the huts at night. The subtle...
"The mulala (a poisonous snake) came and rubbed itself against me and next morning I found I was suf...
Eriya Bakwasa is an expert on the playing of the traditional horizontal harp. In this song he sings ...
Tunes played at weddings. The instrument was new and the notes not well hammered so the tone of the ...
This lyre is strummed like a guitar with the right hand, the left hand stopping the five strings, li...
The Ketuba 8 string lyre has the same order of notes as the Thum played by the luo people to the wes...
Tunes played at weddings. The instrument was new and the notes not well hammered so the tone of the ...
Topical folk song by Evaristo Muyinda and Yakobo Ssweakirya, accompanied by 2 endongo eight stringed...
The longest note of the xylophone was 35 inches and the shortest 24 inches, the average widith of ea...
"Ihubo", the song of the Mahindani Regiment. The Paramount Chief Sibuya has not done right in allowi...