- Title
- Nga, nga, nga, nda reka (Lift and drop)
- Creator
- Bauleni Zhuau
- Creator
- Hugh Tracey
- Subject
- Folk music--Africa
- Subject
- Field recordings
- Subject
- Arts, Malawi
- Subject
- Songs, Nyanja
- Subject
- Nyanja (African people)
- Subject
- Folk music
- Subject
- Africa Malawi Chipwembwe, Fort Herald f-rh
- Date Issued
- 1958
- Date
- 1958
- Type
- sound recordings
- Type
- field recordings
- Type
- sound recording-musical
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155829
- Identifier
- vital:39921
- Identifier
- International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Identifier
- TR088-03
- Description
- The drum leader was not satisfied with the pitch of the drums and stopped playing to adjust the amount of wax on two of the drums and then started again while the girls continued to sing. The wax is made of caster oil beans pounded up, it sticks onto the drum heads in spite of the continual beating of sticks and hands. The addition of wax or paste lowers the note of the drum and the removal of quite a small amount of wax raises the note. Thus the drums can be tunned with reasonable accuracy. The players brought more paste on the drum heads than they needed, no doubt because a certain amount is lost in playing and then tuned by removing a certain amount on each head with a curved piece of tin shaped like a spoon. Note the stress upon the final syllable of Reka NdaReka. Likhuba dance with 9 tuned drums.
- Format
- mp3
- Format
- 7" Reel
- Format
- 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
- Format
- Studer B67 Recorder
- Format
- Sound Forge V.6
- Format
- 00:02:43
- Publisher
- International Library of African Music
- Language
- Nyanja/Mang'anja
- 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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