- Title
- Chimveka tune
- Creator
- Eight small Chopi boys
- Creator
- Tracey, Hugh
- Subject
- Folk music--Africa
- Subject
- Music--Mozambique
- Subject
- Folk songs, Chopi
- Subject
- Chopi (African people)
- Subject
- Field recordings
- Subject
- Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Subject
- Africa Mozambique Zavala f-mz
- Date Issued
- 1963
- Date
- 1963
- Type
- sound recordings
- Type
- field recordings
- Type
- sound recording-musical
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/193340
- Identifier
- vital:45323
- Identifier
- International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Identifier
- TR204-17
- Description
- Chimveka, they say, are only played at the end of the harvest season when there is plenty of food. In time of famine these pipes are never heard. Bands of small Chopi boys can often be seen out in the bush capering around in a tight circle, heads close together and blowing their flutes almost into each others cars. They seem to enjoy the excessive noise at close quarters. The scale of the flutes would appear to be arbitrary and does not correspond with the scale of the Timbila xylophones. The tuning of this set of pipes was:- 632, 592, 544, 488, 412, 372, 348 vs. giving intervals of 112, 147, 188, 148, 145, 177 and 115 cents respectively. Reed end-blown pipes, with rattles and stamping.
- Format
- mp3
- Format
- 7" Reel
- Format
- 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
- Format
- Studer B67 Recorder
- Format
- Sound Forge V.6
- Format
- 00:01:40
- Publisher
- International Library of African Music
- Language
- Chopi
- 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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