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Chimwanikoda (Field Card)
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An unusual musical bow on account of the use of a bridge with which to divide the string into two segments and convey the sound direct to a small drum like resonator attached to the bow near its center. This simple little bow is played with an ox tail bow near the point of stress. A thin stick is inserted between...
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Hongahonga lele (Track)
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The players start to play beginning with the pipe 3rd from the lowest. Each piper above then takes his rhythm from the next man below. If one fails to get started he holds up all the others above. The leader then comes along and gets his rhythm for him and his companions can then take up the rhythm until the trebl...
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Kokwani vo = Uncle (Field Card)
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Kokwani, my uncle, the people like this thing. You go one way and my cousins, you go another. You have left me here in this house with only a blanket, but you must go.' What it was the people liked, or why they had to away was never discovered, but no doubt the local villagers would have known what the singer refe...
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Mabalane kgosi ra bokome (Track)
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"Mabalane Kgosi ra bokome O busa ka Motlhotlho." "The rule of Mabalane, the Chief who ruled in the North was the rule of a drunkard." (a beer strainer). "Motlhotlho" is the word for a beer strainer which is made of woven grass.
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Makwati o tshola nama (Field Card)
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"Nkwe e Jele Rantshilane Ya motshwara, ya mokometsa, Mokampa - wee!" "A leopard has eaten Rantshilane. It held him It ate him. Oh! Mokampe - wee!" The pitches of the 19 flutes were as follows: 1728, 1568, 1280, 1136, 864, 760, 664, 584, 432, 380, 332, 292, 224, (216)?, 194, 172, 144, 108, 98, 84. The pitch of each...
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Mjinga masikiyo uzibe (Track)
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"If you wish to marry a girl from another village you should follow the advice of that village who know her well. Ignore things that appear to be untrue."
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Mundindo movement of Ngodo of Cabo Wukwane, 1955 (Field Card)
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The leader of this orchestra comes from the western region of the principal Chopi district of Zavala, from the village of Zandamela. Cabo Wukwane is one of the headmen of the chief Regulo Mikumbi. Their district includes the wide still waters of the river Inharrime, now no longer navigable, and the large Lake Pole...
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Mundindo movement of Ngodo of Cabo Wukwane, 1955 (Track)
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The leader of this orchestra comes from the western region of the principal Chopi district of Zavala, from the village of Zandamela. Cabo Wukwane is one of the headmen of the chief Regulo Mikumbi. Their district includes the wide still waters of the river Inharrime, now no longer navigable, and the large Lake Pole...
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Mzeno I (part I movement from Ngodo of Regulo Nyakutowo) (Track)
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The district of Regulo Nyakutowo lies immediately west of that of the Paramount Chief of the Chopi, Wani Zavala. The most remarkable feature of this orchestra is that it has been led for over 30 years by a blind musician, Nyapose. It is said that he went blind at about the age of 25 years, having previously worked...
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Mzeno movement of Ngodo of Cabo Wukwane, 1955 (Field Card)
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The district of Regulo Nyakutowo lies immediately west of that of the Paramount Chief of the Chopi, Wani Zavala. The most remarkable feature of this orchestra is that it has been led for over 30 years by a blind musician, Nyapose. It is said that he went blind at about the age of 25 years, having previously worked...
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