- Title
- Mazha
- Creator
- Group of 6 Luba men
- Creator
- Hugh Tracey
- Subject
- Folk music--Africa
- Subject
- Songs, Luba-Lulua
- Subject
- Luba (African people)
- Subject
- Cultural anthropology
- Subject
- Luba-Lulua language
- Subject
- Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kasai f-cg
- Date Issued
- 1957
- Date
- 1957
- Type
- sound recordings
- Type
- field recordings
- Type
- sound recording-musical
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137680
- Identifier
- vital:37549
- Identifier
- International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Identifier
- TR039-03
- Description
- "Masha" , the player of the female xylophone turned his left hand rubber-headed beater around, and hit the tonic (194 vs) continously while playing normally with the right hand, after the fashion of the Kanyoka players. The male range is 194 vs through two octaves and 1 note to 880. The female has two notes below 194 i.e. 160 and 144. 194 appears to be the tone centre. The scale of the instrument as follows: 880 776, 640, 576, 520, 480, 440, 388, 320, 288, 260, 240, 220, 194, 160. Ceremonial pieces for a Chief with 2 Siimba xylophones, 3 goblet drums, pinned, weighted, closed, with mitlitons and hand beaten.
- Format
- mp3
- Format
- 7" Reel
- Format
- 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
- Format
- Studer B67 Recorder
- Format
- Sound Forge V.6
- Format
- 00:02:47
- Publisher
- International Library of African Music
- Language
- Luba
- Rights
- International Library of African Music
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)
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