Tukhongine tulauya

Title: Tukhongine tulauya
Performer / Recordist: Mkwawa, Pancras and Mkwawa, Anslem P; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Chaga (African people); Hehe (African people); Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: "Though we all gather here together yet one day we shall die and meet no more." The singer has a wide reputation as a player of Ligombo an unusually beautiful instrument, with a large gourd attached to one end of the zither. His son is sitting beside him and tappinf the backs of his fingers on the gourd. Mkwawa also hits the gourd occasionally after the fashion of Spanish guitarists. Mourning song, with Ligombo tube Zither, 6 strings.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Hehe
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Tanzania Iringa
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1950
Date issued / published: 1950
Identifier: TR157; 1
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:03:10
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/10962/174951