- Title
- Ekyoma kyabora
- Creator
- Eriya Bakwasa
- Creator
- Hugh Tracey
- Subject
- Music--Uganda
- Subject
- Nyoro (African people)
- Subject
- Folk music
- Subject
- Field recordings
- Subject
- Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Subject
- Africa Uganda Hoima f-ug
- Date Issued
- 1950
- Date
- 1950
- Type
- sound recordings
- Type
- field recordings
- Type
- sound recording-musical
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169629
- Identifier
- vital:41779
- Identifier
- International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Identifier
- TR0132-05
- Description
- Cotton id one of the best cash crops in this most fertile district and this song concerns the cotton ginnery of Kyabora which is run by an Indian. 'The machine Kyaboro' he call it. The harp is made of a simple oval shaped wooden bowl with skins laced onto top and bottom. The arch of the keys is a stout carved stick in which the 8 pegs are inserted for tightening the strings. The tuning of the harp is as follows:- 322, 284, 240, 180, 161, 142, 120 vs. Topical song with Ekidongo eight string horizontal harp.
- Format
- mp3
- Format
- 7" Reel
- Format
- 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
- Format
- Studer B67 Recorder
- Format
- Sound Forge V.6
- Format
- 00:02:31
- Publisher
- International Library of African Music
- Language
- Nyoro
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Ceative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)
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