- Title
- Ngutu Waga
- Creator
- Oluoch Kando
- Creator
- Hugh Tracey
- Subject
- Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people)
- Subject
- Folk music--Kenya
- Subject
- Folk music
- Subject
- Field recordings
- Subject
- Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Subject
- Africa Kenya Bondo f-ke
- Date Issued
- 1950
- Date
- 1950
- Type
- sound recordings
- Type
- field recordings
- Type
- sound recording-musical
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/178135
- Identifier
- vital:42912
- Identifier
- International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Identifier
- TR167-12
- Description
- "His good friend Ngutu Waga, the tailor, has been so generous to the singer as to give him all the necessary cattle with which to marry. What friend could be better than that?" This song is a tribute to his generosity. Ngutu furthermore is a fine tailor at Awak. He once cut a dress for a very lain girl which made her so beautiful that within one week many young men wanted to marry her. The tuning of the lyre in order of strings is as follows:- 170, 152, 138, 116, 232, 202, 170, 152 vs. Praise song for a friend with Thum 8 string and Gava leg bells (-12.55-).
- Format
- mp3
- Format
- 7" Reel
- Format
- 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
- Format
- Studer B67 Recorder
- Format
- Sound Forge V.6
- Format
- 00:02:44
- Publisher
- International Library of African Music
- Language
- Luo
- 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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