The Ekidongo harp is a pleasing instrument in the hands of an expert. This man Eriya Bakwasa is a professional minstrel who makes his livelihood by singing songs. "I weep" he sings "because I am poor", a theme very popular among mendicant musicians. Self delectative song with Ekidongo eight string harp
The Sansi was fixed onto the Chigubu resonator by three point suspensions, 2 at the straining bar an...
A song in which a number of topics are touched upon including Ngobi, a local glutton, and the sorrow...
A praise song in honour of the singer's father who was a well-to-do man of the ruling class in this ...
Self-delectative song about 'I weep because I am poor' accompanied by a Ekindongo har
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...
"There was a certain magician who declared that a lion could be killed by the bare hands alone. No o...
This meat affair goes on and on. Nakatanga took the singer's meat and ate it. Then Nakatanga went of...
"I am afraid of being beaten." The instrument is the 5 stringed Bonguma horizontal, arched harp, the...
The Chibvelani bow was strung with Ilala palm leaf and the player used all four fingers of the left ...
The nnanga is a bowed-neck harp found in the Buganda kingdom, located on Lake Victoria in southern U...
"I made this song for a friend who was not my brother." The tuning of the harp was:- 352, 324, 288, ...
It is interesting to note the apparent differences in tone between the scale of the harp and the voi...
The term ndongo refers to the eight-string bowl lyre of the Baganda, a people that live in the south...
The story, of Ganga, one of a previous Kabaka's palace guards who 'stole some meat' and had the firs...
The Sansi was fixed onto the Chigubu resonator by three point suspensions, 2 at the straining bar an...
A song in which a number of topics are touched upon including Ngobi, a local glutton, and the sorrow...
A praise song in honour of the singer's father who was a well-to-do man of the ruling class in this ...
Self-delectative song about 'I weep because I am poor' accompanied by a Ekindongo har
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...
"There was a certain magician who declared that a lion could be killed by the bare hands alone. No o...
This meat affair goes on and on. Nakatanga took the singer's meat and ate it. Then Nakatanga went of...
"I am afraid of being beaten." The instrument is the 5 stringed Bonguma horizontal, arched harp, the...
The Chibvelani bow was strung with Ilala palm leaf and the player used all four fingers of the left ...
The nnanga is a bowed-neck harp found in the Buganda kingdom, located on Lake Victoria in southern U...
"I made this song for a friend who was not my brother." The tuning of the harp was:- 352, 324, 288, ...
It is interesting to note the apparent differences in tone between the scale of the harp and the voi...
The term ndongo refers to the eight-string bowl lyre of the Baganda, a people that live in the south...
The story, of Ganga, one of a previous Kabaka's palace guards who 'stole some meat' and had the firs...
The Sansi was fixed onto the Chigubu resonator by three point suspensions, 2 at the straining bar an...
A song in which a number of topics are touched upon including Ngobi, a local glutton, and the sorrow...
A praise song in honour of the singer's father who was a well-to-do man of the ruling class in this ...