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Authors: Timoti Sadimbi , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
Language: Tonga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138117 , vital:37595 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-16
Description: Timoti wet the flute with water first before playing. These flutes, they say, are played in January and February, and finished in March, during the time when they start to eat the new season's summer crop of mealies. They are played in the field. The flute is played with the fingers of the right hand palm turned inwards and is held in thus hand only. Flute tune for harvest with Mutetule usibgwa transverse reed flute x 3, open at far end.
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Date Issued: 1957

Authors: Timoti Sadimbi , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
Language: Tonga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138961 , vital:37690 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-03
Description: Played with 4 notes. The notes were roughly hewn pieces of wood laid across the thighs ans played by means of sticks. In this case, the player stood behind the back of the young man on whose thighs the notes were played and beat the notes bending forward over his shoulders. The man acting as xylophone stand sat on a stool with his feet on another stool. Beneath his thighs was a large pot used as simple external resonator. The instrument is played out in the fields when preparing the winter gardens in May. Once the gardens are planted, the xylophone notes are discarded and used as fire wood, new ones being cut each year. The position of the loose notes was changed with each change of tune to facilitate the playing of the item. The pause during the 3rd recording was caused by one of the notes rolling down the boys's thigh and having to be replaced. Self-delectative song with Chikirekore loose note xylophone x 4 notes, pot resonated.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

Authors: Timoti Sadimbi , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
Language: Tonga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138966 , vital:37691 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-04
Description: Played with 4 notes. The notes were roughly hewn pieces of wood laid across the thighs ans played by means of sticks. In this case, the player stood behind the back of the young man on whose thighs the notes were played and beat the notes bending forward over his shoulders. The man acting as xylophone stand sat on a stool with his feet on another stool. Beneath his thighs was a large pot used as simple external resonator. The instrument is played out in the fields when preparing the winter gardens in May. Once the gardens are planted, the xylophone notes are discarded and used as fire wood, new ones being cut each year. The position of the loose notes was changed with each change of tune to facilitate the playing of the item. The pause during the 3rd recording was caused by one of the notes rolling down the boys's thigh and having to be replaced. Self-delectative song with Chikirekore loose note xylophone x 4 notes, pot resonated.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

Authors: Timoti Sadimbi , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
Language: Tonga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138947 , vital:37688 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-01
Description: Played with 4 notes. The notes were roughly hewn pieces of wood laid across the thighs ans played by means of sticks. In this case, the player stood behind the back of the young man on whose thighs the notes were played and beat the notes bending forward over his shoulders. The man acting as xylophone stand sat on a stool with his feet on another stool. Beneath his thighs was a large pot used as simple external resonator. The instrument is played out in the fields when preparing the winter gardens in May. Once the gardens are planted, the xylophone notes are discarded and used as fire wood, new ones being cut each year. The position of the loose notes was changed with each change of tune to facilitate the playing of the item. The pause during the 3rd recording was caused by one of the notes rolling down the boys's thigh and having to be replaced. Self-delectative song with Chikirekore loose note xylophone x 4 notes, pot resonated.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

Authors: Timoti Sadimbi , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1957
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
Language: Tonga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138956 , vital:37689 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-02
Description: Played with 3 notes. The notes were roughly hewn pieces of wood laid across the thighs ans played by means of sticks. In this case, the player stood behind the back of the young man on whose thighs the notes were played and beat the notes bending forward over his shoulders. The man acting as xylophone stand sat on a stool with his feet on another stool. Beneath his thighs was a large pot used as simple external resonator. The instrument is played out in the fields when preparing the winter gardens in May. Once the gardens are planted, the xylophone notes are discarded and used as fire wood, new ones being cut each year. The position of the loose notes was changed with each change of tune to facilitate the playing of the item. The pause during the 3rd recording was caused by one of the notes rolling down the boys's thigh and having to be replaced. Self-delectative song with Chikirekore loose note xylophone x 4 notes, pot resonated.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1957

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