Pango

Title: Pango
Creator: Mwanyingile Mwakapalila and Mwambubile Kapuguso
Creator: Hugh Tracey
Subject: Nyakyusa (African people)
Subject: Zaramo (African people)
Subject: Folk music
Subject: Field recordings
Subject: Africa, Sub-Saharan
Subject: Africa Tanzania Kiwira f-tz
Date Issued: 1950
Date: 1950
Type: sound recordings
Type: field recordings
Type: sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175363
Identifier: vital:42568
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR158-10
Description: The raft zither is made out of eight palm midribs joined together. The string is continous being tuned from the high note downwards by straining the first then making up the slack in the second and so on. The tuning therefore is apt to be uncertain but conforms to the general mode. The music of the Pango is accompanied by dancing by three men, one having small bell rattles (Nzisi). When the player makes a pizzicato all the dancers bend down and make a 'ha-aa' sound in rhythm. The raft zither is about 22 inches long between the bridges. Tuning:- 352, 332, 296, 252, 212, 166, 198. This tuning is unusal in that the 7th note is higher than the 6th instead of being the lowest on the zither. Nganya dance tune for men and women.
Format: mp3
Format: 7" Reel
Format: 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
Format: Studer B67 Recorder
Format: Sound Forge V.6
Format: 00:01:22
Publisher: International Library of African Music
Language: Nyakyusa
Language: Zaramo
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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