Wathi wa ota

Title: Wathi wa ota
Performer / Recordist: Mutio wa Katuma; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk songs, Kamba; Kamba (African people); Folk music--Kenya; Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: This musical bow is a plain bow, loosely strung and strained by means of a half section gourd, which is situated between the bow and the wire string. The concave side is held against the bow, the convex against the string. The singer sings into this hollow gourd and beats the string with a light stick producing one note only. Other players may beat both segments of the string thus producing two fundamental notes Divination song, with musical bow, strained and resonated with half gourd.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Kamba
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Kenya Machakos
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1950
Date issued / published: 1950
Identifier: TR160; 7
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:28
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/10962/175889