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Chepkirui (Field Card)
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This kind of song is a favourite with the Kipsigis tribe in which they praise their friends, the countryside and other familiar things which they love.
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Chibemba (Field Card)
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"My brothers and sisters belong to a family of great repute." A simple accompaniment of bell like quality mainly on two notes. The sound of one of the players thumb nails striking the surface of the sound board after plucking the note can be clearly heard towards the end of the recording. 
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Chibemba (Track)
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"My brothers and sisters belong to a family of great repute." A simple accompaniment of bell like quality mainly on two notes. The sound of one of the players thumb nails striking the surface of the sound board after plucking the note can be clearly heard towards the end of the recording. 
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Chibudu (Field Card)
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Here at Zavala the Sange Timbila is so called Sanzhi. The orchestra consisted of 2 Chilanzani Treble xylophones. 8 Sange Alto xylophones, 3 Debiinda Bass xylophones, 2 Gulu Double bass Xylophones and 4 Njele Rattles. The morning on which this was recorded was very wild and wet, just after a severe storm off the se...
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Chikangaide (Field Card)
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Once there were some children who took their mother's clothes and gave them to a bird, and the bird started singing and said "The children were playing and took their mothers clothes and gave them to me knowing nothing because I am only a bird from the bush." The father came and waited for the bird to kill it, but...
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Chikangaide (Track)
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Once there were some children who took their mother's clothes and gave them to a bird, and the bird started singing and said "The children were playing and took their mothers clothes and gave them to me knowing nothing because I am only a bird from the bush." The father came and waited for the bird to kill it, but...
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Chikangaude (Track)
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A long time ago I went to the garden and there came a certain spider wich turned into a man who told my children to give him some clothes to wear. The man told the childre he had been sent by their mother. So he took the clothes and disappeared. "Children are children, they take their clothes from their clothes ba...
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Chilongozi waulende wamoyo zina lake Yesu (Field Card)
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Aliki Chipupa the composer of this hymn was a minister in the Church of Scotland at the Bandawe Mission near the lake, and a friend of the blind singer. Beti set it to the Bangwe although at the misison it was always sung unaccompanied. When the recording was played back all the people standing around joined in, t...
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Chiyuninzi chikete mukamba (Field Card)
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The story was told to a group of about 30 children of all ages by a young girl of about 16 years. The story was clearly a well known favourite as the audience participated in the song without hesitation or teaching. Perhaps it was father's favourite fishing story.
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Chuma che nledi nkwigaila (Field Card)
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The Malimba were large trough shaped zithers, 3' 10" long supported at either end by two large gourds upon which they were held. Owing to the lowness of the notes they produced, the sound of the drums drowned them. But the three players shook their long strings of red ochred hair in most exstatic style as they pla...
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