Ekyoma kyabora

Title: Ekyoma kyabora
Performer / Recordist: Eriya Bakwasa; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Music--Uganda; Nyoro (African people); Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: Cotton id one of the best cash crops in this most fertile district and this song concerns the cotton ginnery of Kyabora which is run by an Indian. 'The machine Kyaboro' he call it. The harp is made of a simple oval shaped wooden bowl with skins laced onto top and bottom. The arch of the keys is a stout carved stick in which the 8 pegs are inserted for tightening the strings. The tuning of the harp is as follows:- 322, 284, 240, 180, 161, 142, 120 vs. Topical song with Ekidongo eight string horizontal harp.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Nyoro
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Uganda Hoima
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1950
Date issued / published: 1950
Identifier: TR0132; 5
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:31
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/10962/169646