- Title
- Bwezi langa
- Title
- Mt friend
- Creator
- Hodede Homwale
- Creator
- Hugh Tracey
- Subject
- Folk music--Africa
- Subject
- Songs, Tumbuka
- Subject
- Tumbuka (African people)
- Subject
- Songs, Chewa
- Subject
- Chewa (African people)
- Subject
- Field recordings
- Subject
- Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Subject
- Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
- Date Issued
- 1950
- Date
- 1950
- Type
- sound recordings
- Type
- field recordings
- Type
- sound recording-musical
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/186489
- Identifier
- vital:44504
- Identifier
- International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Identifier
- TR191-08
- Description
- "I had a friend but the high God has taken him away." The pauses in the music are caused by the necessity of having to apply spittle to the bow. The fingering of the single string is done by the inside of the 2nd segment of the fingers of the left hand and not by the tips of the fingers. The open string was tuned to 182 vs. The string was made of twisted Wazi bark, it had a small friction pad of Ilala palm leaf (koko) wound onto where the reed bow (uta) was applied to the string. A loop of bark string was used near the Mtowo peg for fine tuning straining the string downwards the Mpini neck. The goat skin membrane was pinned onto a carved wooden bowl with a sound hole cut into its side. Lament, with 1 stringed Karigo lute
- Format
- mp3
- Format
- 7" Reel
- Format
- 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
- Format
- Studer B67 Recorder
- Format
- Sound Forge V.6
- Format
- 00:01:49
- Publisher
- International Library of African Music
- Language
- Tumbuka
- Language
- Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
- 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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