Dale mu bele sa

Title: Dale mu bele sa
Performer / Recordist: Muyapala Kpeli; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk songs, Zande; Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: Unlike most harps of this design, this one was held upright with the point of the body on the performers knees, the neck pointing away from him, the strings in a vertical postition and not horizontal. They do not hold their tuning for long and must be returned before each performance. Long song with vertical, angular Kundi harp of 5 strings. and Andzolo metal hand bells.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Zande; Bandiya
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Buta
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1952
Date issued / published: 1952
Identifier: TR0122; 10
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:01:30
File format: wav
Sample Rate: 15 ips reel
Digitisation (original): 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo; Studer B67 Recorder; Sound Forge V.6
Rights Holder: International Library of African Music
License: CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Access Rights: Public
Is Part Of: ILAM Hugh Tracey Sound of Africa Series
Format: audio/mp3
Genre: field recordings
handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/167409